Brad Clements wrote: > On 28 Mar 2006 at 17:11, Michael Bayer wrote: > >> >> seems like the maintainer is MIA....id have to look up his email >> address in my folders.... >> > > You're talking about the maintainer of the Firebird module? >
yes. his name is James Ralston. > >> You should feel free to fix it up ! whoever can contribute, that >> would be great. > > Are the sqlalchemy unit tests all in working order and they're all > supposed to work > with any engine? they are supposed to, yes. but typcially each new engine requires some tweaks. > > Which tests are best to start with when developing an engine? > the most rudimentary engine-specific tests are testtypes.py, query.py, defaults.py, reflection.py, maybe indexes.py. once basic select/CRUD stuff works, then you try out mapper.py and objectstore.py. once you have those then youre more ready for alltests.py. when I first get an engine going though, or if ive made major changes, I often have to just make a 3 line script to get it going to start, when just to connect and execute a query is having problems. > Any other tips for engine authors other than .. just subclass the > AnsiSQLEngine? take one of the existing <database>.py files and work off of that. but yah youre going to be subclassing AnsiSQLEngine, as well as making type objects, schemacreators, defaultvisitors, etc. i think the firebird module should be very close to working already though. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
