TimeZones Dependency

[ccoffrin]

Might it be possible to drop the dependency on TimeZones? It's build process has been problematic from time to time and it pulls down this file "https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/tzdata2019c.tar.gz" which represents non-github hosted data that isn't tracked by the Julia package manager.

[rofinn]

I'll redirect this to @omus. I feel like the TimeZones.jl build process should just be fixed. Otherwise, it's a pretty light package... and we do find it helpful to have timezone aware timestamps. There has been a discussion of providing a Minimento.jl (for lack of a better name) package that doesn't have any dependencies, but I think at that point it'd be better to just add the functionality we want to the Logging stdlib.

[omus]

I've been thinking about using Julia artifacts to store the tzdata which would also address this problem. Out of curiosity, what is problematic about the build process?

[ccoffrin]

Over the years it was breaking from time to time, I think the wget/curl call would break due to some proxy issue on my side, which was breaking and fixed at random.

A big advantage of a github-only solution is that the git protocol can be used to pull down all of the data which is friendly with various proxies and filters that I encounter.

[ccoffrin]

If Julia artifacts is a viable solution, that sounds good to me!

[racinmat]

TimeZones now use Artifacts https://github.com/JuliaTime/TimeZones.jl/releases/tag/v1.3.0

[rofinn]

Looks like we should already support that version, so I’ll close this. Please re-open if you run into further issues.

[ccoffrin]

Thanks!!!