[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Sun Dec 30 09:50:06 CET 2012

On 30Dec2012 07:42, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote: | On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote: || > On 29Dec2012 21:16, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote: | > | On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> | > wrote: | > | > Why should we care about that situation if we do provide a database? | > | > Distributions can decide to exclude some files from their packages, but | > | > it's their problem, not ours. | > | | > | Yes, but a comprehensible error message is useful even if somebody messed | > | up the system/configuration. | > | > Couldn't you just agree to augument the exception with some "I looked | > here, there and there" information. It avoids a lot of bikeshedding and | > makes things clear. You're not diagnosing system misconfiguration, just | > saying "I can't find stuff, and here is where I looked". || Since the location of the tzdata-update package isn't a fixed place it's | hard to say "I looked here, there and there", though. I don't think anyone | has suggested making any diagnostics. :-)

I think I misunderstood the context. Never mind.

Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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