On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:10:06 +0200 Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Can't we simply include the Olson database in Windows installers? > > We probably can, but the problem is that it's updated quite often (for > example, in 2011, there were about 14 releases; in 2009, there were > 21). So you'd want to have a mechanism to override the data that is > included in the stdlib.
Probably, but for most purposes I would guess a 2-year old database is still good enough? After all, you don't see many people complaining about the outdated Unicode database that is hard-wired in past Pythons. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
