-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2012 02:48 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Reminder to everyone: the current state of the art for getting up to > date tz info for Python is "pip install pytz". > > If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no > point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for > Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in > the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then > take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that > used the system database instead). Lennart's original proposal was to land the machinery from the current pytz package into the stdlib, leaving the data part as a separately-installable package. Lennart also proposed some kind of (maybe configurable) policy for looking up the Olson-based timezonedb. I'm fine with Lennart's proposal, but want to argue against including any copy of the Olson db in Python itself: I don't believe the set of folks who need it but can't do the equivalent of 'pip / easy_install <lennarts-new-name-for-the-data-part>' is big enough to outweigh the downside of bundling immediately-stale data, and hoping that everybody else remembers to configure it out. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBp6OkACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4fZwCfUtz9lnkjxM6rdTaO0io1yzIP f2cAn0YfQt+n09Znuh6BZ/Culixpf7eE =ecDk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
