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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Mar 30 18:08:40 CEST 2006

Anthony Baxter wrote:

On Friday 31 March 2006 02:04, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Excellent point. Hm. Maybe we should just go with 'sqlite', instead. Anything, but please no "db" or "database" top-level module or package :-) How about "sql"? I can't think of a better name right now - can anyone else, or should it just go in the top level as 'sqlite'?

I think sqlite is just fine.

I take it that this is not going to go into 2.5a1 ?! Well, right now the major missing bits for landing it right now are the windows build project and the documentation. I'm pretty comfortable with landing it for a1. It has tests, I've knitted these into the Python regression testing suite and they're all passing fine. I've tested building on systems with a version of sqlite that is acceptable, with no sqlite, and with an old version of sqlite, and the build process handles it all correctly.

Will it also work with e.g. sqlite 2.8.15 (ie. sqlite < v3) - this is the standard version on SuSE 9.2.

Also your statement regarding sqlite3 suggests that sqlite itself is not included - why not ? For the same reasons we don't include the BerkeleyDB library. Many, many modern operating systems now ship with libsqlite3 (just as they ship with bsddb). While sqlite is nowhere near the size of BerkeleyDB, it's still a non-trivial amount of code.

If it works with sqlite2 then I agree: these versions are usually available on Unixes. sqlite3 is not as wide-spread yet.

What about the Windows build ? Will that contain the necessary DLLs ?

Regards,

Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com

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