Michael Bayer wrote:
> 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 ?
Yes. And I think that's the simplest case anyway - no need to load the
pkg_resources stuff if you don't need it.
I'll see if I can hack that together today.
Thanks!
Monty
>
> 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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