[MDBF-1228] windows-packages | use curl.exe to speed up fetching the source tarball - Jira

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Tests shown that powershell's curl is an alias for `Invoke-WebRequest`
which is very slow. Use `curl.exe` instead.

A quick test showed a 2s download (curl) vs. 153s (pwsh).

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads> Remove-Item 70266_mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz -ErrorAction Ignore

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads>

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads> Measure-Command {

>>     curl.exe -L --progress-bar `

>>         https://ci.mariadb.org/70266/mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz `

>>         -o 70266_mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz

>> }

################################################################################################################ 100.0%

Days              : 0

Hours             : 0

Minutes           : 0

Seconds           : 1

Milliseconds      : 983

Ticks             : 19834524

TotalDays         : 2.2956625E-05

TotalHours        : 0.000550959

TotalMinutes      : 0.03305754

TotalSeconds      : 1.9834524

TotalMilliseconds : 1983.4524

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads> Remove-Item 70266_mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz -ErrorAction Ignore

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads>

PS C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads> Measure-Command {

>>     Invoke-WebRequest `

>>         -Uri "https://ci.mariadb.org/70266/mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz" `

>>         -OutFile "70266_mariadb-12.3.3.tar.gz"

>> }

Days              : 0

Hours             : 0

Minutes           : 2

Seconds           : 33

Milliseconds      : 892

Ticks             : 1538929733

TotalDays         : 0.0017811686724537

TotalHours        : 0.0427480481388889

TotalMinutes      : 2.56488288833333

TotalSeconds      : 153.8929733

TotalMilliseconds : 153892.9733