-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2012 10:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:06:18 +0200 Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it >> *was* outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched >> that idea. But as I have pointed out several times, a database that >> is shipped with Python is almost guaranteed to be outdated, so yeah, >> we could just warn *all the time*. :-) >> >> I like this idea. It gives an incentive to update: Get rid of the >> annoying warning. > > Well, no, it is just silly. If we ship a database, that's because we > think it is good enough. A warning is just a nuisance here. We don't > display warnings when the installed Python version is too old.
Using a bundled version would be the Wrong Thing (TM) for almost any non-toy application (one where non-programmers actually care about the timezones in which dates / times are entered / displayed): the fact that the errors would infrequent / subtle / hard to diagnose is an argument *against* inclusion. - -1 for including a copy in Python at all: if your app needs it, and the OS on which you deploy doesn't provide it, you have a straightforward way of installing it. 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/ iEUEARECAAYFAlBp36IACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ4mbACY60cQ1SbUgRh0hNtUmxScRM68 ZwCg125QzeMmhFV0VYYZGmNVmEqpajo= =ehg8 -----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
