I'm wondering if it is (or not) the case to change the ORM.
I've opened a poll on the IMDbPY's web page, even if I fear there will
be very few answers.
If there is someone with a strong opinion about one (even better
about both, especially if you know what's going on in the development
of these projects) of these ORM, please talk! :-)
I was subscribed for a while to both the mailing lists (but I'm no more
following the developments); my overall idea about these two project is:
- SQLObject:
+ it works.
+ the imdbpy2sql.py script aready uses it. :-)
+ it's simpler than SQLAlchemy.
- very poorly documented!
- somewhat painful installation: new versions require a specific
release of setuptools and so on. :-/
- handling of unicode-related issues seems a recurring problem.
- some basic options (use_unicode!) are db-dependant (it works only
with MySQL); is it the same in SQLAlchemy?
- less developed.
? will it be developed? Are they writing a completely new version?
Will the new version lose retro-compatibility?
- SQLAlchemy:
+ more layered.
+ we could kill some unnecessarily 'id' columns.
+ _seems_ more documented and better written, but I may be wrong.
- is it mature (at API level, at least!) enough?
? performances?
? is it enough well-known/widespread?
On the long run, the poorer documentation and the smaller developers base
of SQLObject is "scaring" me; on the other side SQLObject is already here
and after all it's doing its job smoothly...
I'll download the latest SQLAlchemy from the svn and I'll give a look at
the documentation, but actually I'm quite lazy... <g>
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