From randy at thesyrings.us Wed Nov 6 14:48:33 2019 From: randy at thesyrings.us (Randy Syring) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 14:48:33 -0500 Subject: [DB-SIG] Discontinuing the pymssql Project Message-ID: I believe it's become necessary to discontinue the pymssql project. Pymssql is a dbapi2 drive for Microsoft SQL server. Full Announcement: https://github.com/pymssql/pymssql/issues/668 > Thank you to everyone who has contributed to pymssql over the years. > Unfortunately, I believe it's time to discontinue pymssql. It provides > an incredible amount of utility to those of us that need to connect to > MSSQL from Python. But, as a project, it has failed to attract enough > interest/talent/funding to maintain it. > > Why discontinue it and not let someone else maintain it? We've tried > over the years. See #516 > . We have got a few > people drop by to help occasionally, but nothing sustained enough to > feel like transfer of the project was warranted. > > I had always hoped my consulting business would be able to help > maintain the library for clients that use it. But there is too much > work here for us to tackle that doesn't really benefit our client's > usage and we transitioned to PyODBC earlier this year. > > I'm also concerned that if I simply abandon the project a bad actor > could gain control and start installing nasty stuff on what I am sure > is a lot of corporate servers. > > It's my hope that by discontinuing this project better solutions will > be developed and/or adopted to take it's place. > > > Other Related Issues > > * Proposal to discontinue pymssql in favor of pyodbc #477 > > * Maintainers Needed - Apply Within #516 > > * Finding grants/funding for pymssql development #621 > > > > Alternatives > > * pyodbc : Microsoft backed > o But see: https://github.com/level12/sqlalchemy_pyodbc_mssql > * ctds : by Zillow > > > Interested in Taking Over? > > Just fork pymssql and start your own project. Gain momentum, show > progress, and I'd be happy to link to your project from here. > > > Next Steps > > I'm going to leave this issue open for suggestions on how best to > deprecate/discontinue pymssql as a project. I'm sure there will be > some who will suddenly be very interested in helping. I won't be > considering those requests at this point. If you want to help, see > above about forking. > > At the end of November, 2019 I'm going to Archive this GH repository > which will make it read-only. > > I'll also need to figure out how to deprecate packages on PyPI so that > people installing know the project is being discontinued. > *Randy Syring* Husband | Father | Redeemed Sinner /"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" (Mark 8:36 ESV)/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vernondcole at gmail.com Mon Nov 25 23:07:18 2019 From: vernondcole at gmail.com (Vernon D. Cole) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:07:18 -0700 Subject: [DB-SIG] Announcement: adodbapi source code moved to pywin32/adodbapi Message-ID: (adodbapi is a pure-Python PEP-249 compliant SQL interface for Windows using Microsoft ADO. It can access numerous database engines using ADO providers or ODBC drivers, and features such leading-edge enhancements as named-column data retrieval and user-selected query parameter styles.) For anyone who cares: As of today, the definitive source code for the adodbapi project is now the adodbapi sub-directory in the pywin32 source repo. That should keep version creep and file inconsistencies from becoming a problem, which fouled up the installation of adodbapi which shipped with the last few releases of pywin32. The pypi and sourceforge distributions have been updated to version 2.6.2.0, which will be part of the next pywin32 release. My apologies for the long delay in making this happen. My day job is now centered in software QA for many Linux / PostgreSQL systems, so I don't get on Windows very often. A younger volunteer to take over regular maintenance of the adodbapi subsystem would be very welcome. -- Vernon Cole see: https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32 http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net/ quick_reference.md -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: