Opening an older db

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/13/04 12:03 AM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>> Not remember if I have told this on this list
>> 
>> * taking into account that Valentina 2.0 engine itself is about 3MB of size,
>> And it uses several MB of third party libs, I think it will be not big
>> problem if we drop here into Vcomponents folder Kernel_1.dll about 1.2 MB.
>> 
>> Having this dll, it is possible open 1.x database and do simple and fast
>> BYTE to BYTE conversion.
>> 
> 
> Maybe even that could be cut down, since you only need to convert
> V1.x to V2, no actually do anything with the data (like create
> indexes, sql operations, etc.)

Right, I also have think about this.

This require time, testing and so on.
And yes, I will try do this
 
> Speaking of size, will it be possible for us to use the OS X ICU
> library that's already installed? This could be an option, no?

Yes, this must work./

For this I need add one more function to Valentina to point that path.

> That 
> will save up to 8 MB if we want to have all of the available
> languages at hand, which will be a big savings for those of use who
> sell our apps by download.

Yes.

Only potential problem here, if later in e.g. 10.5 Apple ship something
newer and it have different format.

I need ask on IBM list how stable is format of this .dat file.

Also this file in 8MB contains all 170 languages.
Exists utility which allow OPEN this file and remove all what you not need.
Then size can go down to 3.5MB as they say.

I have see in Adobe InDesign that they include .dat file with just 300KB.
I think it includes only English.

We will study all this together later.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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