Bob Ippolito wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2004, at 13:05, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Gerhard Haering wrote: >> >>> Hi python-dev-elopers, >>> Last December, we had a short thread discussing the integration of >>> PySQLite into Python 2.4. At the time, I was against inclusion, >>> because I thought PySQLite was not ripe for it, mostly because I >>> thought the API was not stable. >>> [...] >> >> > >> >>> I think that a simple embedded relational database would be a good >>> thing to have in Python by default. And as Python 2.5 won't happen >>> anytime soon, there's plenty of time for developing it, getting it >>> stable, and integrating it. >> >> >> SQLite is a gem and PySQLite works great, but I don't see why we >> should start adding third-party tools of this size (>38k LOC C code) >> to the standard Python distribution. > > I don't think he ever said that the SQLite source tree should go into > Python. By default can mean that Python builds a SQLite wrapper if > SQLite is available, just like it does for bsddb, readline, etc. Binary > builds for Win32 and Mac should of course ship with a copy of SQLite for > use by the PySQLite extension (w/ a dll or just statically linked in). > Heck, Mac OS X 10.4 will be shipping with SQLite anyway > <http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html>! If that's what Gerhard meant, no objections. >> Perhaps you we should consider adding only the Python interface >> and then ship a DLL with the Windows installer like we do for >> expat and the Sleepycat DBM ?! > > Python includes expat, doesn't it? True, but it didn't use to be included. The fact that our Fred Drake maintains it made the difference, I guess. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Oct 20 2004) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! ::::
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