I've got a meeting coming up with a small team from a commercial DB vendor that's interested in extending their support into the Python community (yea!). Unfortunately, their analysis up until this point has left them with the impression that supporting the django ORM is the first priority, and that SQLAlchemy can come later. (boo!)
I need some help with providing arguments on why they should switch their priorities. I know there's a terrific list of projects that are working on SA integration on the main SA webpage -- it pretty much reads like a "who's who" of the Python world -- but I'm sure the vendor is most interested in supporting the vast army of developers doing small- & mid-scale scale web projects, and django still seems to be in the lead in that space. >From what I've seen, the django/sa integration project is stalled [1], so trying to convince them to do SA support first & hope that the django effort moves forward appears to be a non-starter. I apologize for going slightly OT, but is there hope for a beefier DB- API to emerge in the next 6 months? Choosing to support one ORM or another wouldn't be so dramatic if the DB-API spec wasn't so lightweight. Finally, if I have to bite the bullet & create the sa database engine myself, is there a "best practice" for getting started? Is it pretty much just a game of picking one of the existing ones and tweaking it until it passes all the unit tests or is there documentation (or even a "testbasic") that I'm missing? Thanks! -Ken Footnote: [1] I noticed in a post last month that Brian Beck is considering taking over the django sqlalchemy branch, but I'm sure he's got his hands full with the Pagoda CMS project, so who knows what will happen: http://blog.case.edu/bmb12/2007/03/thinking_about_taking_over_the_djangosqlalchemy_branch --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
