Re: New tzdata available

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> writes:
> >> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> >>> I think we need some different mechanism how to deliver timezone updated.
> >
> >> Even when the system TZ is not used, we could deliver our "zic"
> >> executable (pgzic?) and let the user drop the latest tzdata somewhere
> >> and recompile it.
> >
> > Well, a person who builds from source has already got the zic program;
> > all we need do is document someplace (more visible than now) how to drop
> > the tzdata update into the source tree and reinstall the files.
> >
> > For people using prebuilt packages, it's really the packager's problem.
> > I think most packagers are going to move to depending on a system
> > timezone DB if at all possible.
>
> Still need a solution for those where it's not possible (hint: Windows).
> Not saying it has to be what's there now, but there has to be something
> workable.

I think the first step is to install the zic binary along the rest of
the stuff, so that a user without the source tree can compile the tzdata
package. Unless the compiled representation is portable, which I kinda
doubt?

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