Re: Time::OlsonTZ::Data 0.201112 announcement

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Zefram <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shortly available from all good CPAN mirrors:
>
>  file: $CPAN/authors/id/Z/ZE/ZEFRAM/Time-OlsonTZ-Data-0.201112.tar.gz
>  size: 214778 bytes
>   md5: fcfc9e47de53ee49d4f1f417add98f4b

Are the tools that generate this available somewhere. I'm aware of
T:OTZ:Download, but it doesn't seem to do everything.

I should explain that I'm the current maintainer of DT:TZ in Fedora
and looking at how best we can prepare for the move to T:OTZ:D.
Presumably the other linux distributions are going to face the same
problems we are - we can't simply repackage T:OTZ:D from CPAN as it
contains precompiled tz files. And it doesn't make sense for use to
rebuild the whole thing from source as we already have a tzdata
package that contains exactly the same data and is updated regularly.
I think our best option is going to be to extend our existing tzdata
package so that it also generates a suitable Data.pm which simply
refers to the system-wide zoneinfo directory. And rather than reinvent
the wheel, it would be nice to reuse whatever you use to do this.


-- 
Iain.