-On [20100217 03:19], Stuart Bishop (stu...@stuartbishop.net) wrote: >The Debian, Ubuntu and I think Redhat packages all use the system >zoneinfo database - there are hooks in there to support package >maintainers that want to do this. This way the package can be included >in the supported release but still receive timezone information >updates via the OS (but no code updates, but these are rare and >usually irrelevant unless you where the person who filed the bug ;) ).
This can also work for all the BSDs since they include the Olson zoneinfo data in the base system as well. And that will probably mean Mac OS X as well, if they stuck to what FreeBSD had in place for that. Can anyone verify that? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B Anything becomes possible, after you find the courage to admit that nothing is certain. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
