On 8/16/21 5:56 PM, Paul Reeves wrote:
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:34:09 +0300
Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel <firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
One detail - this should not be called "minimum client install".
This should be called "default install",
Or maybe just call it 'client install', or 'client libraries install' ?
Recommended client install ?
and _minimum_ one should behave almost like now - but tzdata is also not
needed.
But this also poses the question - do we even want to support wht is
currently the minimum client install in the installer. Who could actually use
such a minimal client with Firebird 4.0 and later ? It might just be better to
document what the absolute minimum is rather than encourage it.
I do not think that such install is useless. Remember to support what
features do we need that DLLs?
1. ICU - timezone pretty print.
2. zlib1 - wire compression (efficient only for slow WANs).
3. chacha - new wire crypt support.
Something makes me think that 1 and 2 usages are not extra popular. A
lot of tasks do not need time at all, date is enough. WAN connection is
also very small %% of total connections.
What about chacha - it was added only to make extra security worried
users happy - with SRP session key as encryption key RC4 is not worse
than ChaCha, it just has bad reputation due to low quality keys in a
number of usages.
Certainkly, ideally people should be given a choice of DLLs to install
(next screen?) with brief description what for are they needed.
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