On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:01:28PM -0400, Jorge Vargas wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:37 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why does my TurboGears/SQLObject app need an explicit connection to 
> > database to
> >  be exposed?
> >
> >  I'm thinking of the following line which *MUST* appear....
> >
> >  __connection__ = turbogears.database.PackageHub("myapp")
> >
> >  Isn't a goal for ORMs to hide all this database connection stuff?
> no the goal of ORM is to provide an Object frontend to the Relational
> backend. This request is unacceptable. you may need different
> connections to different dbs. the abstraction is already a lot did you
> read the PackageHub code?

SQLObject is awesome.  Yes the level of abstraction is all anyone could ask
for.  Everyone in the TurboGears/SQLObject community is so talented I knew I'd
learn something from asking a possibly dumb question.  My apologies if I
annoyed anyone.

Chris

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