[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Tres Seaver]

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On 10/01/2012 10:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:06:18 +0200 Lennart Regebro <regebro at 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 *was* outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched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 is shipped with Python is almost guaranteed to be outdated, so yeah,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.
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