I am very pleased to announce that version 0.5.1 of Elixir (http://elixir.ematia.de) is now available. As always, feedback is very welcome, preferably on Elixir mailing list.
This is mostly a bug fixes release (especially for people using inheritance), but we have also a few minor new features, including a new plugin for managing entities as (ordered) lists, enhanced support for custom base classes and an alternate (nicer) syntax to define synonym properties. The full list of changes can be seen at: http://elixir.ematia.de/trac/browser/elixir/tags/0.5.1/CHANGES What is Elixir? --------------------- Elixir is a declarative layer on top of the SQLAlchemy library. It is a fairly thin wrapper, which provides the ability to create simple Python classes that map directly to relational database tables (this pattern is often referred to as the Active Record design pattern), providing many of the benefits of traditional databases without losing the convenience of Python objects. Elixir is intended to replace the ActiveMapper SQLAlchemy extension, and the TurboEntity project but does not intend to replace SQLAlchemy's core features, and instead focuses on providing a simpler syntax for defining model objects when you do not need the full expressiveness of SQLAlchemy's manual mapper definitions. Mailing list ---------------- http://groups.google.com/group/sqlelixir/about -- Gaëtan de Menten http://openhex.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html
