Would it be feasible to restructure ICU has a master DLL/shared image plus a DLL/shared image per character set loaded on demand? If so, Firebird could be packaged with a small subset containing popular languages with others available for download somewhere.
On 2/19/2014 10:30 AM, Paul Reeves wrote: > On Wednesday 19 February 2014 16:19:22 Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: > >> With new ICU, I tried to remove most of charsets (we use one from it) >> and the data we don't use (say, currency, etc). I left all collations >> variants in it. Size is around 5 MB and 1,5 MB zipped. >> >> Is this acceptable? >> > I don't see any practical alternative. Theoretically we could offer different > packages. I would guess that most users only use a small subset of the > available characters, but breaking that down into, say, english, western > european, easter european, etc would seem to be a lot of work, and difficult > to maintain. > > > Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
