required files from unicode.org for jed-extra

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* G. Milde <milde at users.sourceforge.net> [2008-07-25 11:17]:

> Alternative:
> 
> Maybe we can use the method from the command line utility (and Debian
> package) "unicode"::
> 
>   Package: unicode
>   ...
>   Suggests: perl-modules | console-data (<< 2:1.0-1) | unicode-data
> 
> I.e. jed-extra could 
> 
> * Suggest perl-modules | unicode-data 
>   (I am not so sure about the suitability of console-data (<< 2:1.0-1))

No, console-data does not contain Blocks.txt and NamesList.txt.  I think it
is irrelevant here.

> * Search for the directories
> 
>   % /usr/share/unidata/   % (where does this come from?)
>   /usr/share/unicode/
>   /usr/share/perl/*/unicore/UnicodeData.txt    % with globbing
>   ~/.unicode/             % local install, maybe as fallback
>   
>   which (normally) should contain the needed files.
> 
> IMO, this is "the right way". Advantages: 
> 
> * No duplicate files on the system.
> * Works also for users of the upstream ch_table mode.
> * We do not need to care about download, storage, copyright, and updating.
> 
> * this would also work (with a modified Suggests:) if eventually
>   unicode-data is split into a core and extension package.

The only drawback is that the packages are huge:

    $ apt-cache show perl-modules unicode-data | grep '^\(Package\|Installed-Size\):'
    Package: perl-modules
    Installed-Size: 16544
    Package: unicode-data
    Installed-Size: 12448

The NamesList.txt file is not that small neither (870186 bytes), but
anyway...

-- 
Rafael