Breaking changes to data file names

[Doug Ewell]

Steven R Loomis <srloomis at us dot ibm dot com> wrote:

> they are intended to be permanent as per
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/8031

It might not have been quite so bad if the name had been changed to
"cldr-XX-core.zip" as originally proposed in the ticket. An application
would have no imaginable way to map "core.zip" to "cldr-common-XX.X.zip"
on its own.

I see from the ticket that the change from "core" to "common" was
approved literally yesterday (March 18). That's really not a lot of time
before a release to do the due diligence of finding out whether external
references, such as RFCs and IANA registries, are affected. It looks
like only internal references were considered.

> Perhaps core.zip could be a redirect (or symlink ) to the actual file?

That would work, since the location of the files within the archive
(common\bcp47) has not changed.

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