[cross-project-issues-dev] ICU4J version changed to 71.1

[Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI,

The version of ICU4J has been changed and that causes a number of problems:

https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/pull/439

If you use icu4j, you'd better check that the new version works 
properly, e.g., it appears that 
org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.utils.StringUtils.unpack is broken.  See 439 
for details.

One problematic aspect is that icu doesn't version its packages so one 
cannot ensure that the correct version will be wired purely via package 
import constraints:

    <provided namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' name='com.ibm.icu' 
version='71.1.0'/>
    <provided namespace='osgi.bundle' name='com.ibm.icu' version='71.1.0'/>
    <provided namespace='java.package' name='com.ibm.icu.lang' 
version='0.0.0'/>
    <provided namespace='java.package' name='com.ibm.icu.math' 
version='0.0.0'/>
    <provided namespace='java.package' name='com.ibm.icu.number' 
version='0.0.0'/>
    <provided namespace='java.package' name='com.ibm.icu.text' 
version='0.0.0'/>
    <provided namespace='java.package' name='com.ibm.icu.util' 
version='0.0.0'/>
    <provided namespace='osgi.identity' name='com.ibm.icu' 
version='71.1.0'>

Note that Platform has been discussing removing the dependencies on icu 
but has not taken the final steps to do so.  Perhaps it's time to stop 
relying on this library.

Regards,
Ed