i think using entry points to load in external database dialects is a
great idea.
though the current six core dialects i think i still want to load via
__import__ though since im a big fan of running SA straight out of
the source directory (and therefore thered be no entry points for
those in that case).
so probably a check via __import__('sqlalchemy.databases') first,
then an entry point lookup. does that work ?
On Mar 26, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I wanted to check and see if a patch would be considered (before I
> spend
> any time on it) to replace this:
>
> return getattr(__import__('sqlalchemy.databases.%s' %
> self.drivername).databases, self.drivername)
>
> from sqlalchemy.engine.url
>
> with something using the pkg_resources plugin stuff from setuptools?
>
> I ask, because I'm trying to write a new database engine that's a
> fairly
> heavy write. (this is the NDB API thing that doesn't use SQL) I'm not
> touching any code so far that isn't in a single file in the databases
> dir, but there are a couple of us who are trying to work on the
> project
> together. I'd really like to just version control that one file so we
> don't have to branch the whole sqlalchemy source. I also think it
> might
> be nice to be able to distribute a sqlalchemy database engine without
> having to get it committed to the trunk.
>
> HOWEVER - I recognize that no one else might care about either of
> these
> things. I don't think it will be a hard patch or one that will be
> disruptive to the current way of doing things, but I wanted to
> check if
> it would be rejected out of hand before I bothered....?
>
> Thanks!
> Monty
>
> >
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