> On Jun 5, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Josh Smeaton <josh.smea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It sounds like we have consensus that we can make pytz a required dependency > when USE_TZ = True, and clear up the associated documentation. > > I think now we should try and find (rough) consensus on whether or not we > should have pytz as a required dependency in `install_requires`. > > > If there is a significant number, and we want to continue to support their > > use-case, it's a non-zero added burden to require them to pull in a > > frequently-updated useless dependency. > > Let's assume there is a reasonable number of deployments with and without > timezone support. Even then I'm personally in favour of requiring pytz. > > django-admin.py startproject defaults to USE_TZ = True which means that new > projects that install django, start the project, and then run the internal > web server are going to get missing dependency problems.
That's an excellent point. I agree, we should just add pytz to install_requires if we require it for USE_TZ=True, otherwise the default new-project experience is unpleasant. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/12B46FC5-1326-4938-B611-86A7E195347A%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
