Neal Norwitz wrote:
On 3/28/06, Gerhard Häring <gh@ghaering.de> wrote:
Even better, the authors should be willing to keep the version in Python synchronized with the separate release.
In particular, I would then synchronize changes that have proven stable in the standalone release to the Python core sqlite module. I think this is how Barry does it with the email module, too.
Everything Gerhard has said sounds good. From what I read it seems that it might be good to add pysqlite to the stdlib eventually. Overall, I'm +0 on the idea. It seems everyone is pretty positive on the concept.
However, I'm -0 on adding this to 2.5. We've already got a lot of changes. I don't want us to keep piling more on. Also I thought I saw Gerhard say that there were some other things he wanted to finish and the timing might work better for him to defer a bit.
My current and future plans for pysqlite are really only additional features, like wrapping the rest of the SQLite API.
Some of these things sounded like API changes which may be more problematic once in the core as we may have stricter rules on backwards compatibility.
All my plans for pysqlite are adding more methods to the API, so I see no backwards compatibility problems.
We also have to convert the doc from ReST to latex. None of these are show stoppers, but it adds to the amount of work we need to do before release. And there's already more work than we can handle.
I understand your concern for keeping the amount of work for a 2.5 release manageable. So as Anthony Baxter said he'd like to work with me to make this happen, then I think he and I can try to not overload other people with more work. Creating latex docs sounds like I could do it, too. What I'd personally like to offload are these two tasks: - integreting pysqlite into the Python build process - in particular the win32 build process I would have access to Linux and win32 development machines with MS VS2003, but I don't have enough experience with the Python build process to not make stupid mistakes here. -- Gerhard