[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5?

[Georg Brandl]

Neal Norwitz wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Gerhard Häring <gh at 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.  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.
> 
> 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.

FWIW, I'd volunteer to convert the doc format.

Georg