Is this still being maintained?

[Hrothen]

I see open PRs with no comments, the last commit is from 2015, and the version on Hackage isn't even the latest version in this repo.

I think this is a fairly important library, so if @bos doesn't want to maintain it anymore, perhaps we should try to find someone to take over?

[ice1000]

I don't think so.
Agda depends on this. I feel awful because I see some compilation errors here.

[L-TChen]

I feel also very awful. According the following wiki page

https://wiki.haskell.org/Taking_over_a_package

we can try to contact @bos and find a volunteer to maintain this package on Hackage. If it doesn't work, then the Hackage administrators can grant the maintainship. So, is anyone here willing to maintain this package?

[andreasabel]

@bos had his last activity in August 2017 so it is unlikely something will happen here suddenly.

I emailed to haskell-libraries: http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/Maintenance-of-text-icu-Bryan-O-Sullivan-td5899391.html

[emilypi]

This package was moved to the Haskell github recently (as in, last month) in order to make it easier to find maintainers for a bunch of Bos' libraries. Currently, it should be considered unmaintained, and any one who volunteers to pick it up is greatly appreciated. @bgamari

[andreasabel]

Viktor Dukhovni and me volunteered. https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2021-January/031118.html
My interest is only in keep this package buildable with the involving ecosystem.

[ice1000]

Viktor Dukhovni and me volunteered. https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2021-January/031118.html
My interest is only in keep this package buildable with the involving ecosystem.

Would you be interested in automating the installation (and compilation) of the texticu C library?

[andreasabel]

Would you be interested in automating the installation (and compilation) of the texticu C library?

Er, I see, maybe I am not a good fit for this maintainer job. I know C but am not really fluent, use it only once very couple of years...

[ice1000]

Well, please don't say that! 😟 build automation is just a part of the pain. Making this project work is ofc a more critical need to do.

[vshabanov]

If no one objects, I would like to become a maintainer of the text-icu. I've just made a PR #57 with text-2.0 support, and there is a number of other PRs waiting to be merged.

I'm already maintaining bindings to another important C library — HsOpenSSL, so I have some experience with it. I'm not planning to develop text-icu much, but of course, I will make it compile and will review and accept PRs and publish new versions.

[vshabanov]

Closing, since I now maintain text-icu.