Hello! I am going to start working on a number of rather large issues, and
few of them are really big changes. I will describe them in greater details
below, but now I want to ask a question: how should I handle the changes?
I can release SQLObject 0.8 from the trunk and start to work on these
large issues; then they will be in the SQLObject 0.9. Or I can continue to
work in the trunk now, so the changes will be in SQLObject 0.8, but the
release will be much later. What is better for the SQLObject users?
The biggest issue I am going to work on is Unicode support. It is now
clear that my original decision to allow an every UnicodeCol to has its own
dbEncoding was a mistake. I would like to repair it. I am going to remove
dbEncoding from UnicodeColumns and move it to DBConnection. Every
connection could have dbEncoding; the encoding will be used to convert:
-- strings queries to unicode and unicode results to strings for those DB
API drivers that accept and return unicode: latest MySQLdb and PySQLite;
-- unicode queries to string and string results to unicode columns for
those DB API drivers that don't work with unicode.
The second big issue is %-encoded DB URIs. I'd like to change the URI
encoding to be a proper %-encoding. This allow users to use standard tools
(urllib) to generate queries that contain special characters, and allows
the developers to use the same standard libraries to parse the encoded
URIs. But is a big change as it requires everyone to reencode their DB URIs.
I am going to start obsoleting support for Python 2.2. The first step
will be to issue a warning. I am not sure if SQLObject 0.8 should issues
the warning, or should I wait for SQLObject 0.9?
There is also a few lesser issues, not as world shuttering. I am going
to work on sqlbuilder.Select() to synchronize its features with
SQLObject.select(). Even lesser is to implement fromDatabase for SQLite -
the last database that lacks the feature.
Oleg.
--
Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
sqlobject-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss
