On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 10:14, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I have no answer for this. The sourceforge project has a number of maintainers, but there are old outstanding bugs which have had no attention (some even have patches). I'm afraid it's at the bottom of my priority list at present.
Mine too. Unless someone volunteers, I'm strongly against adopting this code -- we can't have decaying code in the core distribution.
We probably do more harm than good if we include code that isn't being actively maintained. It's inclusion in the std library creates the impression that it is bullet-proof and well-maintained. It feels like another asyncore: a body of code the core developers don't understand tool well but will be forced to learn through years of fixing subtle bugs. It would certainly be unusual and kind of neat to ship an SQL database with the standard library, but I doubt many people are expecting to find one there. SourceForge seems like a good home. Jeremy