Hello! I hope this message may help. I'm an ex-SQLObject user and now SQLAlchemy user. I just read on the SO group that sqlobject 0.x is being dropped and a probably backwards incompatible SQLObject 2 is being developed.
I think SQLAlchemy is more complex but more coherent, and the recent ActiveMapper function allows any easy, more SQLObject-like database schema definition, and in fact I think it was created after SO behaviour. Now, my 2c: do we really need *two* ORMs in the Python community? I think it's not easy to create an ORM, and dividing two skilled programmers into two different projects will probably mean that development will be slower. Multiple unfinished project on the same subject and zero stable-and-usable software in the same category is already a common issue in the open source community, we should not make it worse. There're various SO2 features I'd like to see in SA, mostly related with SQLobject ease-of-use - in SA everything can be done by creating an appropriate object, but SQLObject often does it 'out of the box' (e.g. column overrides). It would be nice to have a kind of SQLObject class to inherit from in SQLAlchemy, or something similar. Haven't you (Ian and Micheal) ever considered a merge? Please note: I don't want to give unwanted advice. I'm not a skilled programmer, but I just think there're toooo many 'in progress' software doing the very same thing in the open source world, and that wastes a lot of programming time, and often it's not the worse software to reach an 'unmantained' state in the end. Bye! -- Alan Franzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Togli .xyz dalla mia email per contattarmi. Rremove .xyz from my address in order to contact me. - GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C77 9DC3 BD5B 3A28 E7BC 921A 0255 42AA FE06 8F3E ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sqlalchemy-users mailing list Sqlalchemy-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlalchemy-users
