On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:49 PM, desmaj wrote: > >> >> I dislike the idea of relying heavily on DSNs since I don't want SA to >> tell people how to manage their systems. Giving full support to DSN- >> less connections let's SA work with existing systems. > > DSNs would eliminate these issues for SQLAlchemy. DSNs are the > recommended way to connect with ODBC and im always confused why people > don't use them. Back when I used to use ODBC heavily, it was the > *only* way to connect. All of this host/port stuff with ODBC client > libraries is unknown to me. > > this is just my 2c, im not here to say how it should be done or not. > I would think that the standard SQLA host/port connect pattern should > work as well if we just are aware of what kind of client library we're > talking to. If we can't autodetect that, then we just use a keyword > argument "?connect_type=FreeTDS". We can document all the different > "connect types" somewhere and just adapt to all the newcomers that > way. With DSN being the default. I definitely do not want to start > allowing raw connect strings through create_engine() - if you need to > do that, use the creator() function. > > Whats the status of 0.5, is DSN the default in trunk now ?
In my opinion sqlalchemy should provide dsn and dsn-less connections options. I know it does dns-less and I'm not sure what the status is on dsn connections. If both are available I think that is great, if you force users to use one or another that would cause problems for me especially if you don't allow dns-less connections. Thanks, Lucas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
