Bug 393221

Bill,

Essentially because it wasn't part of the main tarball (the country database
always has been), it is fairly dynamic (and unless I release monthly updates
it's data is going to be obsolescent within weeks if not already the case) and
it adds around another 10-15mb to the package size (Maxmind have optimized their
databases recently so they're smaller than they used to - City was 26mb compressed!)

I remember a similar conversation about this with Matthias Saou and the result
was  the fetch-geoip-* Perl hacks I cooked up to fetch and decompress them (both
updated Country/City db's). It WORKSFORME but might not suit all tastes, obviously.

I don't mind shipping a "starter" City database with a new release provided
low-bandwidth users don't put a bounty on my head.  :-D (I know how they feel -
I'm in Australia, practically a broadband backwater..)

Would a devel branch release with this db as a feature suit as a "usability
case"? I suppose I can roll it back if there's a hue and cry..

Well, my use case for it isn't working out, but it might be something
interesting to try.

FWIW, the fetch-geoip-* script didn't work for the City database for me, because
I didn't have a preexisting one.

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