Greets, [apologies if an earlier dup gets "unswallowed"] Well, I've been solo'ing it for over a year now, and it's definitely time to make my presence known to the community and invite others to participate as I can't keep putting it off as I have been. There has always been something else that I wanted to "finish up" before making any announcements, so I kept putting it off and putting it off. Time to stop that. =)
For those of you who are not familiar with what I've been doing, I have been working on a Python procedural language extension for PostgreSQL and, furthermore, making attempts to formalize a specification of Python interfaces to PostgreSQL elements(making a draft doc [relatively ;] soon). It is a PgFoundry project, and I do have some information up on the project site[1]. There are other subprojects as well as the PL, such as layout and exceptions, which should be of interest to other developers working on PostgresSQL related Python modules. The backend part--the procedural language--of the project offers a substantial number of improvements over the plpython that is currently in core[2]. The design, in general, has a significant contrast to the one in core, as it focuses on providing 'interfaces to' rather than 'conversions for'. While this appears to cause a larger code base, it provides a level of flexibility that makes adaptations and improvements trivial in many or most cases. For instance, I already have the necessary infrastructure to support OUT parameters in a way that is _very_ natural(tho, support for 8.1dev is not there yet; busy with other stuff). It, currently, is *not* my hope to eventually put this into core; rather, I think I would like to give a try at setting a good example for extension development. PgFoundry is a good resource, and I think it should be exercised, as it makes a great home for projects like this(gborg is pretty good as well!).(Yes, I'm +1 for, eventually, pushing things out of core. ;) While this is not so much of a formal announcement of the initiative/project(a formal one will eventually come to -announce and c.l.py), it is an invitation to those interested parties on -hackers to join the python-general list[4], which, in addition to up and coming development releases, I hope will lead to the project becoming more active, as opposed to me just silently hacking away. In addition, for those who might want it, I'm open to the idea of giving admin/commit access--especially to well known devs and members of core, so please don't hesitate to ask if you think you would like to take a relatively active role. If you are concerned about the licensing and the ambiguity of the primary license, don't be. It is--at least meant to be--a gift license, so I have no problems with others using the works under the BSD or MIT licenses; this is explicitly stated/granted here[3], and a reference to the authorization to use those substitute terms will eventually make its way into every instrument-stamped source file. (I may restamp files with the BSDL, as it is the license used by PG, but this one is so short and sweet. ;) If you want to play with what I've got so far, see the quick start[5]. It gives you some neat code, so you can play around in the interactive console in a single-user backend to get a better feel of things. (It should work without much/any trouble, at least on FreeBSD 5.3. If you do have trouble don't hesitate to contact me by e-mail or on freenode where I go by the nick 'jwp'.) I imagine this being the first step that I need to take to begin gathering interest and increasing project activity. Any suggestions on how I can further achieve this goal would be appreciated. [1]http://python.projects.postgresql.org [2]http://python.projects.postgresql.org/project/be.html [3]http://python.projects.postgresql.org/license.html [4]http://lists.pgfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/python-general [5]http://python.projects.postgresql.org/quick.html -- Regards, James William Pye ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
