[request] Migrate Bincrafters' icu_installer

Package Details

• Website: http://site.icu-project.org/
• Source code: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/
• https://github.com/bincrafters/conan-icu

We already have a icu package for the libraries in CCI, but we can’t archive the Bincrafters’ variant just yet, because the CCI recipe doesn’t package the binaries.

This leads continuously to confusions and puts us in a situation where we need to double maintenance work. Therefore I think it would be good when we fully migrate Bincrafters’ ICU recipes rather sooner than later.

I’m unsure how to proceed here.

• Do we add the binaries to the existing recipe?
• Are we creating a new recipe for cross-compiling reasons or similar reasons?
  • If so, how do we name it? In this case the existing package should have probably be named libicu or something, but probably too late now?

[jgsogo]

Yes, but still this feature is in an early stage, I really think it is the way to go (and if breaking were an option, I would force always the new behavior and take the build profile equal to host if missing, or to the default one) but we really need more feedback about it. Today we may think that only the bin folder is needed, but we cannot change all the recipes to match that approach before testing it, maybe we realize that we need the PATH too, or something else…

Also, changing these installer recipes in Conan will require a change in the CI, we would need to provide the profile:build too while compiling in order to work with this new build requirements… and this is something we need to talk about for ConanCenter CI in the following weeks.

So, keep calm, try it before making breaking changes to the recipes. Give feedback, maybe we are wrong and this is not the right approach (it is 😎 )

[Croydon]

I will leave that to people who are actually missing this executable in the package 🙂