I need to post this on devel to canvass some opinions re. Firebird 3.x on MacOSX.
As you may know in firebird 3.0 on posix now relies on a OS pre-installed version of ICU for both development and runtime, rather than what was our own build of ICU. Although this has its inherent problems (databases need to backed up and restored across different versions of ICU) it does make our use of ICU easier, that is, until we get to MacOSX. OSX only has a core ICU install by default, Firebird needs more. So the solution from a build perspective is to install MacPorts ICU and link to that, however that now creates additional external dependencies... Does that mean - in future - that a Firebird user on MaOSX needs to install ICU via MacPorts into opt/local/lib? Or should I try and ship the ICU libs with the Framework, along with any relevant dependent libs? The same is also true for the usage of libtommath... A find / libicu on my Mac seems to indicate that other software that uses ICU does ship ICU with with their frameworks. Comments? I am at the point where we need to make a decision as I am currently re-writing the MacOSX Firebird installer for Firebird 3.0 Regards Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
