I suppose I should make an introduction and an announcement before asking
this question. So...
I am Vernon Cole. I have recently been made an admin for the adodbapi
project on sourceforge. My stated purpose for seeking that appointment
was to eventually retire the project by including it as part of
pywin32. Mark Hammond has given his blessing to that effort. I have
released adodbapi version 2.1 which includes all known bug fixes and
most enhancement request patches. (see http://adodbapi.sourceforge.net
for more information.) I feel that it is time for its inclusion into
pywin32.
Adodbapi is a pure python implementation of the complete db api 2.0
specification which uses Microsoft ADO DB as its access method. It is
dependent on pywin32 as a prerequisite because it uses the COM
interface to reach ADO. Included units tests operate correctly with
Microsoft ACCESS tables, MS-SQL, and MySQL (using an ODBC driver.) My
reason for including it in pywin32 is to prevent having to download
and install a third package (in addition to pywin32 and python itself)
in order to have full 2.0 level database access. One more step towards
"batteries included."
Mark has asked me where within the pywin32 source tree should adodbapi be
placed? Here are my thoughts on the matter, your input is solicited...
Existing distributions of adodbapi are at the site-packages level,
siblings with pythonwin and win32com. i.e.
C:\Python2x\Lib\site-packages\adodbapi .
I think that they should continue to be installed at that same place to
simplify upgrades on systems where the package is already installed.
It feels right to me then for the source to be a new branch off of
/pywin32 (i.e. /pywin32/adodbapi) rather than finding another place
further down the tree.
The existing directory tree looks like this:
-- adodbapi-2.1
..--adodbapi
....--__init__.py
....--adodbapi.py
..--tests
....--adodbapitest.py
....--adodbapitestconfig.py
....--adbapi20.py (and so forth)
..--license.txt
..--readme.txt
..--setup.py
I understand nothing about the magic whereby the source in the CVS tree
becomes the install file that I run on a target system. So my question is:
would /pywin32/adodbapi/adodbapy/adodbapi.py be the correct place to put
the source?
--
Vernon Cole
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