Include icupkg executable on Windows to allow easy time zone data upgrade
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Key: CORE-6215
URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6215
Project: Firebird Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Engine, Installation
Affects Versions: 4.0 Beta 1
Reporter: Mark Rotteveel
For users to upgrade the tzdata, there are two procedures[1]:
1. Use icupkg to integrate the new time zone data in the ICU data file
2. Put the newer files in a directory and point ICU_TIMEZONE_FILES_DIR to it
The first option is currently hard to do on Windows, because you need the
icupkg executable, which doesn't seem to available unless you compile from
source yourself. The second requires setting an environment variable which is
for a service is rather awkward to do[2].
To ease use of option 1, I suggest that we include a compiled version of icupkg
in the Windows build.
[1]:
http://userguide.icu-project.org/datetime/timezone#TOC-Updating-the-Time-Zone-Data
[2]:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/305870/accessing-environment-variables-from-windows-services
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