Hi there,
[I originally picked this up on a thread on zope3-users, but this
deserves its own thread here]
There are at least three approaches to SQLAlchemy integration with Zope:
* z3c.zalchemy (Christian Theune)
* z3c.sqlalchemy (Andreas Jung)
* collective.lead (Laurence Rowe)
All of these are in various states of brokenness. z3c.zalchemy doesn't
work with SQLAlchemy trunk. collective.lead works with it, but only if
you check out a particular branch, and not with sqlite. Quite possibly
z3c.sqlalchemy has a release that actually works. One out of three is
not bad... :)
Then there's also mentions about WSGI-based integration, and I think in
Plone, Alchemist probably also does its own integration...
There must be a reason for this proliferation of approaches. What is it?
We all get along, don't we? I know that the various packages are
taking code and approaches from each other too.
Can't we work together more and at least come up with *one* package that
works? Perhaps factor out some low-level commonality than then all
share? Criticize one of the other packages until you're satisfied, and
then retire your own package perhaps? I know the various packages add on
their own approaches to configuration and might offer higher level
container approaches. Those could be in different packages, sharing a
foundation.
In the end, I hope we will end up with just *one* integration layer,
that is released, that works with Zope 2 and Zope 3 and a recent release
of SQLAlchemy, that is documented, and that people know about. We can
then offer packages on top of this that offer extra features.
Regards,
Martijn
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