On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:59:43 +0100
Tony Whyman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hopefully, an installer package will eventually be made available to
> automate the process. However, the above manual procedure is all that is
> currently available.
I'm wondering how people think we could automate this process. Thoughts that
immediately come to mind are:
- We have no control over the release cycle of tzdata. The update to
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/tree/master/extern/icu/tzdata
seems to be manual at the moment.
- Looking at the update history over at
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu-data/tree/master/tzdata/icunew there
can be up to 10 changes per year.
- The changes will, in all probability, more than 99% of the time, have no
relevance for over 99% of our users. But can one take the risk of
ignoring them?
- Even if we can provide timely, automated updates how will a server
installation know to look for them? A task scheduler of some sort would
need to check. We don't have one built in to Firebird so it would mean
adding something platform specific.
Paul
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