Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Dec 12 17:44:36 CET 2012

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Le Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:11:15 -0600,
Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> a écrit :
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> I don't think it's all that bad to include a small script on Windows
> which runs every few days to check PyPI, then present an option to
> update the info. This is what Java itself is doing anyway.

I don't get why people are so obsessed about updating the timezone
database. Really, this is not worse than having a vulnerable OpenSSL
linked with your Python executable. Purity does not bring any
advantage here.

Regards

Antoine.

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