Joel Rosdahl wrote: > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What is really confusing is that I did a search for 'sqlite' in my >> Ubuntu repositories and it came up with entries like this: >> >> python2.4-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 >> python2.4-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 >> python2.4-pysqlite python interface to SQLite 2 > > That's python2.4-sqlite, not python2.4-pysqlite. The reason for both > having pythonX.Y-foo and python-foo packages is Debian's (and > therefore Ubuntu's) Python package policy. > >> python-pysqlite1.1 python interface to SQLite 3 >> python-pysqlite2 python interface to SQLite 3 >> python-sqlite python interface to SQlite 2 >> >> Needless to say, the numbering had me banging my head against my >> desk. > > Sorry to hear that, and I can understand that the names are a bit > confusing. > > Here's the story behind the mess: > > In the beginning (well, at least in 2003 when I found out about > SQLite), SQLite was up to version 2.something and the Python module > was called sqlite.py. While the Python module *project* was called > pysqlite 0.something, Debian modules were generally called python-foo > when providing the module foo; hence the name python-sqlite. > > Then, SQLite 3 was released (incompatible with SQLite 2 databases), > and pysqlite 1.1 was released with the same module name (sqlite.py) > and API as the old sqlite.py module but linked against SQLite 3. I > decided not to package that version but instead wait for pysqlite 2, a > rewritten and improved version linked against SQLite 3 and with a new > Python API. > > pysqlite 2 was released and the Python module was called > pysqlite2.dbapi2. I didn't think python-sqlite3 would be a good name > for the Debian package since there were actually two different > pysqlite versions (both actively maintained) linked against SQLite3, > so I ended up calling the package python-pysqlite2, following the name > and version of the pysqlite project instead of the module. > > Finally, by request of Debian users, I also packaged the other > pysqlite version linked against SQLite 3 giving the package > python-pysqlite1.1. > > Oh, and then there's python-apsw too. :-) > > Regards, > Joel (maintainer of Debian's Python-related sqlite packages) >
Yikes! Well at least it gets simpler when 2.5 is released with the module built-in! :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
