On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:34:40 +0100 Dimitry Sibiryakov <s...@ibphoenix.com> wrote:
> 10.03.2020 09:48, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote: > > May be for old windows versions - yes, some problems. All the others > > upgrade ICU as a part > of regular OS upgrade. I.e. if one already has > > local ICU extended format is definitely > useless overhead. > > ICU appeared only in recent builds of Windows 10. Windows 7-8 and > servers don't have it. Some Linux distros package ICU in a very strange way > with names that Firebird don't know how to use. > > One of the perennial problems with building firebird on opensuse is the non-standard version numbering that opensuse use. Of course, the icu version required by firebird 3 is different to firebird 4 and they are both different from the icu deployed with the released version of opensuse. I've tried hacking the firebird code without much success and I've tried applying patches that have worked in the past, again without much success. Soemtimes they work. Sometimes not. I usually end up just digging around for community repos to find a version of icu that will build with firebird. But that doesn't solve the underlying problem. Another aspect, which is more personal, is that like most Anglophones I don't really need the character support provided by icu. And living in a country with a single time zone I don't need the time zone support either. For me icu spells Aaargh!!! :-) Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
