On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > General comments: > > > It seems like the consensus is moving towards making sure there always is a > database available. If this means including it in the standard Python > distribution as well, or only on Windows, I don't know, opinions on that are > welcome. > > The steps to look for a database would then change to: > > 1. The path specified, if not None. > > 2. The module for timezone "overrides". > > 3. The OS database. > > 4. The database included in Python. > > We need to determine if a warning should be raised in case of 4 or not, as > well as the name for the override module. I think the word "override" here is > possibly unclear, I'd prefer something like "timezone-update" or similar. > > I'm personally a bit sceptical to writing a special updater/installer just > for this. I don't want to have a special unique way to install this package. > > As it comes to OS packages, Christian Heimes pointed out that most Windows > installations today has Java installed, and kept updated, and it has a > zoneinfo database. We could consider using that on Windows as well, although > it admittedly feels quite icky.
Depending on Java being installed or even installing it alongside Python would be a funny April Fools prank. This can't happen. I don't think it's all that bad to include a small script on Windows which runs every few days to check PyPI, then present an option to update the info. This is what Java itself is doing anyway. _______________________________________________ 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
