Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Orbit Bundles To Be Removed From 2018-09

[Roland Grunberg <rgrunber@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 15:44 +0200, Tom Schindl wrote:
> I'm late to this but while trying to bring our products up to 2018-09 I
> found the removal of "com.ibm.icu.base" disturbing.
> 
> The Mail from "Roland" says one should substitute "com.ibm.icu.base"
> with "com.ibm.icu" which I think is a bad idea.
> 
> The sole reason for "com.ibm.icu.base" was/is that you don't ship a 12MB
> jar if you don't need any of the extra functionality "com.ibm.icu" provides.

Hey Tom,

If people would like to have corresponding com.ibm.icu.base for any
version of com.ibm.icu, that's fine. It would just be a matter of
ensuring the "base" version is available for the latest one in use as
I'd rather not accumulate many older versions. This is a similar
situation to things like Batik or Lucene, where platform handles the
set of bundles it cares about, but anyone wanting more has to do the
extra work.

The discussion for Platform to move to plain icu4j (from maven) was in 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536411 (comments 11-17)
so it made sense to have everyone using the same thing, but maybe other
projects outside SimRel may still want a smaller version so I'm not
opposing this. For those projects, there is also the Photon Orbit repo
which has the older versions (containing icu.base) as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Roland Grunberg