Ancient distros and non-UTF-8

[Tino Didriksen]

I would quite like to clean up the codebase and dependencies by using C++11 and restricting stream and grammar encodings to UTF-8, and to that end I'd like to know if...

- Is anyone using streams or grammars in encodings other than UTF-8?

- Is anyone stuck on ancient versions of GCC g++ older than 4.6?

Debian Stable and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS have 4.6.3, which are fine. Mac OS X users' g++ 4.2 doesn't count - you have XCode's clang++ instead, which is C++11 capable.

I only know of RHEL/CentOS 6.5 that has g++ 4.4.7, but since RHEL is also stuck on a too old version of CMake and nobody has complained about that, I guess RHEL's not really important.

-- Tino Didriksen
CG-3 Developer

[Tino Didriksen]

A week on and nobody has objected.

So, nobody minds if I drop support for ISO-8859 family, UTF-16/32, BIG5, etc?

And nobody minds if distros older than Debian stable can't easily build CG-3?

-- Tino Didriksen
CG-3 Developer

[Diana Santos]

Hi,
I absolutely mind if you drop support for ISO-8859 family, and I was
also to say that I am unfortunately also stuck with RHEL bacause it is
the Linux distribution that is supported at UiO

At Linguateca we still have a large number of corpora in ISO and we are
using vislcg3 for semantic annotation...
Sorry for this...
Diana

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[Tino Didriksen]

On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 10:15:57 UTC+1, Diana Santos wrote:

I absolutely mind if you drop support for ISO-8859 family, and I was
also to say that I am unfortunately also stuck with RHEL bacause it is
the Linux distribution that is supported at UiO

If you're using RHEL, how are you building the current version of CG-3? For the past 6 months, CG-3 has required at least CMake 2.8.0, but RHEL by default only has CMake 2.6.4.
 

At Linguateca we still have a large number of corpora in ISO and we are
using vislcg3 for semantic annotation...

Having data in ISO-8859 family is not really a problem, since you can just pipe it through "uconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8" (or iconv, or recode).

Which is one major reason I want it out of CG-3 itself - there are better tools for stream encoding conversions (uconv, iconv, recode), so there is no good reason for CG-3 to do that job.

-- Tino Didriksen

[Paul Meurer]

Hi,

sorry, I didn't see this anouncement before now.

We are developing on CentOS 6.5, so support for it would be important for me until CentOS 7 is out.

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[Trosterud Trond]

Tino Didriksen <Tino.Di...@gmail.com> kirjoitti 25. feb. 2014 kello 09:14:

So, nobody minds if I drop support for ISO-8859 family, UTF-16/32, BIG5, etc?

Me? No. UTF-8 is it.

And nobody minds if distros older than Debian stable can't easily build CG-3?

Me? No.

Trond.

[Lars Nygaard]

Could people stuck on older distros use binaries compiled on newer
systems? Would this be acceptable to people, as long as new versions
are promptly publised in binary form?

-lars

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