<i18n dev> [8] Review request for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data

[Naoto Sato]

On 8/7/12 2:57 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> See inline
>
> On 2012-07-13 22:20, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> Something seems strange here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/6336885/webrev.00/make/java/java/localegen.sh.sdiff.html
>>
>> It's like someone was avoiding overall quotes, but using them to add
>> spaces somehow...
>> I sure would like to get rid of this shell logic, seems like there are
>> lots repeated logic that
>> this script does over and over or could be done with makefile pattern
>> subst's instead of exec's.
> The new version isn't any worse than the old in my opinion. In
> build-infra, this file is indeed replaced with make logic. After having
> decoded both versions I'm confident in converting the changes.
>> Overall, just looking at the makefiles, the build-infra team may need
>> some time to fully absorb this into the
>> new makefiles, some of it will be trivial, not sure all of it will be.
>>
> I have applied the patch to a clone of build-infra and done the minimal
> changes to keep build-infra building, which was rather trivial. The
> resulting build has large differences since I haven't converted all of
> it yet. There are a couple of things that will require some more work,
> but not more than a day or two.
>> Not sure how to proceed here, the build-infra team does need an action
>> item to deal with this, maybe
>> before it gets integrated because I suspect the new makefiles will
>> break with all the filename or
>> directory changes. But I hate to hold up your integration plans.
> I see these as possible options:
>
> 1. Let this go in, build-infra will break in jdk8 until we do our next
> push and it trickles through the repos.
> 2. The build-infra project provides a patch with the full conversion
> that can go in together with these changes.
> 3. The build-infra project provides a simple patch which just keeps the
> build-infra-build from failing that can go in with these changes.
>
> The conversion needs to happen regardless of option. The changes
> required are pretty isolated from remaining build-infra work. What do
> you think?

Either way is fine with me. If build-infra team prefers 2 or 3, please 
give me the patch, and I will go ahead and merge them to my changeset.

Naoto

>
> Other than that, I have no objections to the review.
>
> /Erik
>
>> I'd like to get some advice from Erik on this before saying anything
>> further.
>>
>> -kto
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Naoto Sato wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please review the JDK8 changes for JEP 127: Improve Locale Data
>>> Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data
>>> (http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/127). The webrev is located at:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~naoto/6336885/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> The main bug id for this enhancement is:
>>>
>>> 6336885: RFE: Locale Data Deployment Enhancements
>>>
>>> Along with this, the following bugs/enhancements are also implemented
>>> in this change:
>>>
>>> 4609153 Provide locale data for Indic locales
>>> 5104387 Support for gl_ES locale (galician language)
>>> 6337471 desktop/system locale preferences support
>>> 7056139 (cal) SPI support for locale-dependent Calendar parameters
>>> 7058206 Provide CalendarData SPI for week params and display field
>>> value names
>>> 7073852 Support multiple scripts for digits and decimal symbols per
>>> locale
>>> 7079560 [Fmt-Da] Context dependent month names support in
>>> SimpleDateFormat
>>> 7171324 getAvailableLocales() of locale sensitive services should
>>> return the actual availability of locales
>>> 7151414 (cal) Support calendar type identification
>>> 7168528 LocaleServiceProvider needs to be aware of Locale extensions
>>> 7171372 (cal) locale's default Calendar should be created if unknown
>>> calendar is specified
>>>
>>> Please note that packaging changes that relate to Jigsaw module
>>> system aren't included in this changeset.
>>>
>>> Naoto Sato and Masayoshi Okutsu