[Python-Dev] SQLite module for Python 2.5

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Oct 20 19:16:25 CEST 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 13:05, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> SQLite is a gem and PySQLite works great, but I don't see why we
> should start adding third-party tools of this size (>38k LOC C code)
> to the standard Python distribution.
> 
> Perhaps you we should consider adding only the Python interface
> and then ship a DLL with the Windows installer like we do for
> expat and the Sleepycat DBM ?!

Oh, maybe I misread Gerhard's post, but I definitely didn't expect him
to do anything other than this!  I'd be -1 on adding the SQLite code to
Python, but +1 on shipping the wrapper module with the source code, and
the DLL on Windows.

-Barry

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