[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions on using a dialect outside of the Alchemy installation tree

2009-03-12 Thread Shawn Church
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:52 AM, phrrn...@googlemail.com phrrn...@googlemail.com wrote: The quality of the support in this group is remarkable. The answers are starting to remind me of Guy Harris in terms of quality and clarity! (If the name is not familiar to you then check out the Usenet

[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions on using a dialect outside of the Alchemy installation tree

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Bayer
you can install the dialect using a setuptools entry point. SQLAlchemy looks for dialect modules using the sqlalchemy.databases entry point name, so in this case you might name it sqlalchemy.databases.sybase-ase. phrrn...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have done a fair bit on a Sybase ASE

[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions on using a dialect outside of the Alchemy installation tree

2009-03-10 Thread phrrn...@googlemail.com
Thanks Mike. This sounds great although I have to admit that I don't follow it completely as I have not used authored anything via setuptools. If this is trivial for you, could you sketch out what this would look like? pjjH On Mar 10, 11:25 am, Michael Bayer mike...@zzzcomputing.com wrote:

[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions on using a dialect outside of the Alchemy installation tree

2009-03-10 Thread jason kirtland
It'd look like this: http://code.google.com/p/ibm-db/source/browse/trunk/IBM_DB/ibm_db_sa/setup.py Your dialect will be available to SA after you 'python setup.py install' or 'python setup.py develop' in your -ase distribution. phrrn...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks Mike. This sounds great

[sqlalchemy] Re: Suggestions on using a dialect outside of the Alchemy installation tree

2009-03-10 Thread phrrn...@googlemail.com
The quality of the support in this group is remarkable. The answers are starting to remind me of Guy Harris in terms of quality and clarity! (If the name is not familiar to you then check out the Usenet archives from the mid to late 80's) thanks very much. pjjH On Mar 10, 11:34 am, jason