Now, my 2c: do we really need *two* ORMs in the Python community?
I agree that we do not.
But really this sentiment should be directed towards Ian Bicking; he's finally (implicitly) admitted that SqlObject is a dead end, but instead of throwing his weight behind a better ORM, he insists on fragmenting things again. Oh, well.
It would be nice to have a kind of SQLObject class to inherit from in
SQLAlchemy, or something similar.
Consider contributing to Jonathan LaCour's activemapper code in the sqlalchemy.ext submodule. I think this does more or less what you want.
Haven't you (Ian and Micheal) ever
considered a merge?
Perhaps if more people urged Ian to consider this, he would. I know I have, to no effect. He doesn't even want to re-use the lower-level (sql) layer of SA. Maybe his vision of how ORM should work is really so different that the world does need an SqlObject2. But I doubt it.
OTOH, Michael's been quite open to ideas from others, as activemapper or my own sqlsoup illustrate.
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