[Python-Dev] pysqlite for 2.5? (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Thu Mar 30 03:15:40 CEST 2006 

>> Is it not possible to distribute an empty db package which is then
>> populated with various database eggs (or other similar installation
>> things)?

Phillip> I don't think I understand your question.

Someone was throwing around names like db.sqlite as the place to install pysqlite. That suggests other database interface modules like db.mysql, db.postgresql, db.sybase, etc. Given that we probably won't include all those as standard modules, we should make it easy for someone to install one or more of those modules via normal external mechanisms and have them appear seamlessly to the Python programmer. Then I begin to wonder why bother with db.sqlite at all. Why not just create an empty db package that does the pkgutil or pkg_resources dance and let people install all N database interfaces instead of just N-1?

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