[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support.

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Dec 13 12:06:18 CET 2012


Le Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:07:34 +0100,
Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > On 12/13/2012 1:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> >> All in all I would say I would prefer to install this per Python.
> >
> > Then explicit update requires multiple downloads or copying. This
> > is a violation of DRY. If if is not too large, it would not hurt to
> > never delete it.
> 
> Yes, but this is no different that if you want to keep any library
> updated over multiple Python versions. And I don't want to invent
> another installation procedure that works for just this, or have a
> little script that checks periodically for updates only for this,
> adding to the plethora of update checkers on windows already. You
> either keep your Python and it's libraries updated or you do not, I
> don't think this is any different, and I think it should have the
> exact same mechanisms and functions as all other third-party PyPI
> packages.

Agreed. This doesn't warrant special-casing.

Regards

Antoine.




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