[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements - Update

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <
arfrever.fta at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2012-12-29 19:54:42 Lennart Regebro napisał(a):
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > - -Lots for enabling fallback by default except on platforms known not
> to
> > > have their own database
> >
> > Well, it's the same thing really. If the platform does have a database,
> the
> > fallback will not be used.
>
> I suggest that configure script support
> --enable-internal-timezone-database / --disable-internal-timezone-database
> options.
> --disable-internal-timezone-database should cause that installational
> targets in Makefile would not install files of timezone
> database.


Will this help the makers of distributions, like Ubuntu etc? If that is the
case, then it might be worth doing, otherwise I don't think it's very
useful.

//Lennart
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