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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] test: icu-59.1-1
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 20:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518ce2c0-325f-52f1-6615-f30cb35b60b8@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <618e34d6-7007-8c86-9535-3fb7dbaa1c54@cygwin.com>

On 4/16/2017 3:06 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2017-04-16 12:20, Ken Brown wrote:
>> This is an update to the latest upstream release.  There are major
>> changes in this release that will make ICU easier to use but require
>> changes in projects using ICU.  In particular, ICU now requires C++11,
>> so packages using ICU may need to add -std=c++11 or -std=gnu++11 to
>> CXXFLAGS.  See
>>
>>   http://site.icu-project.org/download/59
>>
>> for further details.
>>
>> I'm making this a test release to give other maintainers time to
>> adapt to the changes.  If no problems are reported within a few weeks,
>> I'll promote it to current.
>
> I can see this being problematic for some packages.  We may want to wait
> for this to hit Fedora rawhide first so that patches for dependent
> packages are readily available.

OK, no problem.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-16 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <announce.201704161722.v3GHMMgl022439@authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu>
2017-04-16 19:06 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-04-16 20:34   ` Ken Brown [this message]
2018-01-05  6:55   ` Yaakov Selkowitz

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