On 3/26/07, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
For what it's worth it's perfectly possible to use entry points when
running the project from its own source directory. I do it all the
time, but I'm not sure what is the exact condition for that to work.
Simply having in your source directory a directory named
anything.egg-info containing an entry_points.txt file seem to be
enough.
> 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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