out of date - it was based on a.out OBJECT_FMT, and added entries in the
generated PLISTs to reflect the symlinks that ELF packages uses. It also
tried to be clever, and removed and recreated any symbolic links that were
created, which has resulted in some fun, especially with packages which
use dlopen(3) to load modules. Some recent changes to our ld.so to bring
it more into line with other Operating Systems also exposed some cracks.
+ Modify bsd.pkg.mk and its shared object handling, so that PLISTs now contain
the ELF symlinks.
+ Don't mess about with file system entries when handling shared objects in
bsd.pkg.mk, since it's likely that libtool and the BSD *.mk processing will
have got it right, and have a much better idea than we do.
+ Modify PLISTs to contain "ELF symlinks"
+ On a.out platforms, delete any "ELF symlinks" from the generated PLISTs
+ On ELF platforms, no extra processing needs to be done in bsd.pkg.mk
+ Modify print-PLIST target in bsd.pkg.mk to add dummy symlink entries on
a.out platforms
+ Update the documentation in Packages.txt
With many thanks to Thomas Klausner for keeping me honest with this.
Collation performance is improved.
The collation implementation will continue to change for ICU 1.8 according to the collation design document.
Improved performance of parsing and formatting of dates and numbers
Improvements in the ISO-2022 implementation
Bug fixes, more stable, and support for standard country variants:
ISO-2022-JP (incl. -1, -2)
ISO-2022-CN (incl. -EXT)
ISO-2022-KR
Support for GB 18030
Basic support for UTF-32 (no ucnv_getNextUChar(), incomplete offset handling)
Support for the HZ encoding
Converter fallback semantics modified and .ucm mapping files updated with precise roundtrip/fallback indicators
ICU library names include the version number for better coexistence of different installed ICU versions on a single machine
The code libraries contain the two major/minor version digits
On Windows, they also contain a 'd' for the debug versions
The icu data file contains the ICU version and a letter for the data configuration (ASCII/EBCDIC, big-endian/little-endian)
ICU client code links with .lib files/object symlinks without the version number for easier future updates
Debian packaging
The API documentation is improved.
