[1050] in BarnOwl Developers
Merging the Unicode branch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Oct 29 18:12:30 2009
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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 13:59:09 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
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I want to merge the unicode branch to trunk real soon now. It's stable
and has been in heavy use by most of the devs and some users for a
while now. The three main things we may want to think about are:
1) GLib dependency
The Unicode branch requires GLib 2.12 or newer. Etch or newer
Debian or Edgy or newer Ubuntu have this; Older systems will
not. Athena Linux or Solaris have too old a GLib, but we've
successfully built it into the barnowl locker and so the locker
build should not be a problem.
I don't think this is a big concern unless someone tells me that
everyone at CMU is using barnowl on ancient machines without a
modern GLib, or something.
2) Non-UTF-8 locales
The unicode branch won't work with non-ASCII if you're running in a
non-UTF-8 locale. I suspect we don't care, but I'd be curious to
hear if anyone thinks we do.
3) Sending encoding information
If we want to modify barnowl to create a convention of e.g. sending
a Content-Type header in zephyr field three, we might want to do so
now, before we push this into even more widespread use.
Does anyone have any thoughts about these or other concerns before we
merge?
- Nelson
