runjak / ideal-goggles

Compare currency formattings in glibc and icu across different locales

ideal-goggles 🥽✨

This project is concerned with the way currencies are formatted for different locales in two major projects:

• icu
• glibc

Project structure

• The projects to compare, icu and glibc will be cloned into subdirectories, and be built and installed in the project directory.
• Two separate binaries are built, one per project, to output the formatted currencies per locale. These binaries are kept in the currencies directory.
• Execution of index.ts will lead to:
  • Executing the two binaries to gather and compare their output.
  • Generation of several markdown files as a report in the output directory.

Project setup

The project makes use Node.js, yarn and several tools to compile C/C++ code as well as popular linux cli programs.

There are some helper scripts to aid with installing or updating dependencies:

• Use clone-repos.sh to initially clone the glibc and icu repositories.
  • These repositories will be cloned into the glibc and icu directories respectively.
  • Later on it may be desireable to checkout specific versions of each project - which can be done using git.
• Use yarn build as a handy way to execute the different build scripts for different steps in the project.
• Make sure to execute yarn install for the node dependencies.
• Use yarn start to produce a report as several markdown files in the output directory.