[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Dec 13 09:22:59 CET 2012

On 12/13/2012 1:06 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

Or ask the user where to put it. If we ask where it should be installed, then we need a registry setting for that

Right.

So I think that asking is not an option at all. It either goes in %PROGRAMDATA%\Python\zoneinfo or it's not shared at all.

If that works for all xp+ versions, fine.

I know where I would choose, and it would not be on my C drive. Un-installers would not delete (unless a reference count were kept and were decremented to 0). True, and that's annoying when those counters go wrong.

It seems to me that Windows has a mechanism for this, at least in some versions. But maybe it only works for dlls.

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.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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