Oleg Thank you. See reponses below.
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:53:29PM +0400, Oleg Broytmann wrote: > > Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff? > > Yes, but remember these things: > > 1. The Law of Leaky Abstractions - it is very hard to completely hide the > underlying level. > 2. There is no way for an ORM to guess where you do want to connect to. > 3. What if one would want to connect to two different databases? Should the > ORM to guess both connections? How?! Yes but couldn't this be done in a config file rather than in Python code? Unless I'm missing something, this is *already* done in TurboGears/SQLObject as the config file there defines a sqlobject.dburi variable! Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ sqlobject-discuss mailing list sqlobject-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sqlobject-discuss
