On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Oct 02, 2012, at 12:18 AM, 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). > > Why wouldn't the stdlib just ship with that emulator by default then? If your > OS doesn't have a system database, then you `pip install pytz` ftw.
I think those are all suggestions included in Nick's intention. The main points are that (a) pytz and some not-too-ancient Olson database are included by default, (b) vendor distributions can tweak the packaging so that the platform's copy of the Olson database is used automatically; (c) users not benefitting from such vendor support can update the database as easily as "pip install pytz" (though not necessarily with that specific command). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
