>> we must provide binaries inside our Windows package :(
>>
>
> Yes, that is right.
>
> I don't object to agreeing on a specific version of ICU for each release. We
> would just change the build script as required. (Presumably we will need .lib
> files.) Our main problem is likely to be finding icu binaries built with
> MSVC10.
ICU 4.6 (more exactly icu4c 4.6 and latest 4.6.1) are built using MSVC10, so
this is not an issue.
BTW, we still have no MSVC10 at our build farm, but this is another
question...
> Not much would change as far as packaging is concerned. We would just include
> the icu dlls as now, except their location at package time will / may be
> different.
>
> Of courses, we may get lucky and ibm will have upgraded their ridiculous icu
> build system and we could just incorporate it again into the windows build.
> However, if it hasn't been changed it would require a ton of work for each
> icu
> version, which is one of the reasons why we haven't upgraded icu.
One note. Binary packages at IBM site
http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.6.1/icu4c-4_6_1-Win32-msvc10.zip
http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.6.1/icu4c-4_6_1-Win64-msvc10.zip
contains relatively "big" ICU libraries. Size of 3 dll's needed for Firebird is
more than
16MB, the biggest is icudt46.dll (14.4MB) which contains a lot of unused by FB
data.
Should i said that whole FB folder have similar size ?
Here http://apps.icu-project.org/datacustom/ we can see what could be
removed
without any harm.
We should decide (at least for Windows)
a) will we provide ICU libraries
- within our packages (as with FB2.x), or
- ask users to download ICU from IBM site, or
- provide separate package with just 3 DLL's we need
b) will we provide default ("fat") ICU libraries or our customized ("light")
version ?
Regards,
Vlad
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