[Python-Dev] Re: GadflyDA in core? Or as add-on-product?

[Jeremy Hylton]

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