[ANN] pysqlite 2.5.0 released

[Gerhard Häring]

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pysqlite 2.5.0 released
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I'm pleased to announce the availability of pysqlite 2.5.0. This is
a release with major new features.

Go to http://pysqlite.org/ for downloads, online documentation and
reporting bugs.

What is pysqlite?

     pysqlite is a DB-API 2.0-compliant database interface for SQLite.

     SQLite is a in-process library that implements a self-contained,
     serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database
     engine.

     pysqlite makes this powerful embedded SQL engine available to
     Python programmers. It stays compatible with the Python database
     API specification 2.0 as much as possible, but also exposes most
     of SQLite's native API, so that it is for example possible to
     create user-defined SQL functions and aggregates in Python.

     If you need a relational database for your applications, or even
     small tools or helper scripts, pysqlite is often a good fit. It's
     easy to use, easy to deploy, and does not depend on any other
     Python libraries or platform libraries, except SQLite. SQLite
     itself is ported to most platforms you'd ever care about.

     It's often a good alternative to MySQL, the Microsoft JET engine
     or the MSDE, without having any of their license and deployment
     issues.

pysqlite can be downloaded from http://pysqlite.org/ - Sources and
Windows binaries for Python 2.5, 2.4 and Python 2.3 are available.

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CHANGES
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- - Windows binaries are now cross-built using mingw on Linux
- - import various fixes from Python 2.6 version
- - Connection has new method iterdump() that allows you to create
  a script file
  that can be used to clone a database
- - the docs are now built using Sphinx and were imported from
  Python 2.6's sqlite3 module
- - Connection.enable_load_extension(enabled) to allow/disallow extension
  loading. Allows you to use fulltext search extension, for example ;-)
- - Give the remaining C functions used in multiple .c source files
  the pysqlite_ prefix.
- - Release GIL during sqlite3_prepare() calls for better concurrency.
- - Automatically download the SQLite amalgamation when building
  statically.
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