Shane F. Carr

@jwebbed is interested in this.

Which direction should the dependency go: zerovec to litemap, or litemap to zerovec? I think I prefer zerovec to litemap because litemap is a smaller, simpler crate. I can also...

- @echeran This seems reasonable - @nordzilla We don't have good ways to construct ZeroMap - @Manishearth We can say that you start with LiteMap and make a ZeroMap from...

#1369 implements much of the infrastructure for this design to work. I consider the remaining deliverable for this issue to be tests/examples for the remaining constructions in the OP.

Given CrabBake and the fact that the erased data provider needs a more prominent role, and based on further experience with FFI, here is my updated trait structure. ### BufferProvider...

To-do: make sure everything here is well documented.

Document the following in the data provider tutorial: 1. Design is such that caching is not needed, but could be added based on specific client needs 2. Examples of how...

Now that we support custom parents for collation data, this is something we can fix if necessary. Note that ICU4C already performs this mapping in the icuexportdata.

First, please leave skeletons (including `available_formats`) aside. Those need their own discussion. Responses to the several sub-questions: ### DataProvider Flexibility > As far as I understand DataProvider we have some...

Because of reasons I discussed in the new doc [datetime-input.md](https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/blob/master/docs/datetime-input.md), I now believe that we should *not* have different data keys for different calendar systems. We should pool the essential...