On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:32:50PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Dan Kogai <dankogai(_at_)dan(_dot_)co(_dot_)jp> writes:
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 12:26 , Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Just checking: is enc2xs really a widely enough useful tool to install
for everybody? It's pretty specialized, after all.
It is special indeed for those wanting to add ucm-based new
encodings. However, External encoding modules stand no chance without
it. So far Encode::HanExtra works fine but once for example, NI-S
decides to rehack encengine.c, the Encode::HanExtra need to be updated.
with enc2xs, all you need is recompilation should that occur.
Don't expect those who want to add encodings are programmers.
Autrijus happens to be a programmer (and darn good one!) so HanExtra
would be ok with or without enc2xs. But with more modules to come (such
as proposed Encode::JISX0213), enc2xs is needed and it is rather
ludicrous to get the whole Encode distro just to get enc2xs.....
NI-S's Tk extension may decide to add encodings for fonts it comes across.
(FWIW I note that in Tcl/Tk the Tk part adds some encodings that are
apparently only of interest for fonts - in their case ucs-2be.
So _maybe_ perl/Tk can take back any "raw" encodings which are only
of use for fonts.)
That said we don't need to install enc2xs is a public bin dir, so long
as it is installed somewhere. Compare xsubpp itself - that is not
Ahhh, that makes more sense. $Config{privlibexp}/Extutils/enc2xs?
put in a 'bin' but MakeMaker knows where to find it for .xs -> .c
conversion. We could do the same for .ucm -> .xs ??
Dan the Encode Maintainer
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