[Releasing] ICU support in QtCore and QtWebKit

[morten.sorvig at nokia.com]

On Sep 11, 2012, at 1:45 PM, ext Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
 wrote:

> On terça-feira, 11 de setembro de 2012 12.38.26, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> On terça-feira, 11 de setembro de 2012 12.25.02, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>> Is there anyone volunteering for that task? ICU seems to have the options
>>> for  inserting a suffix to the functions and library names, which we'll
>>> need on Linux and on Mac. I don't think we need it on Windows.
>> 
>> Actually, for Windows we can probably just ship the pre-built binaries from
>> upstream.
>> 
>> For Mac and Linux, we need to build it with the option
>> --with-library-suffix=qt.
>> 
>> It takes just a couple of minutes to build it. I'm preparing a patch for
>> that option.
> 
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/34597
> 
> I've tested and it works.
> 

How does the ICU dependency affect app deployment? If app developers configure with -icu-system, will they run into  he same issues as we did with our binary packages?

Mroten