SQLite3 Phobos branch

Russel Winder russel at russel.org.uk
Sun Apr 24 13:53:31 PDT 2011


On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 16:40 -0400, dsimcha wrote:
[ . . . ]
> I consider it a no-brainer to include just the bindings and SQLite C 
> code in etc right now.  SQLite is arguably the most widely used 
> database, is easy to distribute and is public domain.  It would be great 
> if this infrastructure was "just there" for whoever wants to build on it.
> 
> As far as the wrapper, I would love a simple SQLite wrapper in Phobos, 
> since SQLite is the only DB I personally care about.  However, it seems 
> others in the community are interested in a more general SQL DB wrapper 
> that can be used with a variety of backends.  Now that no GSoC database 
> project has been accepted, we need to consider other options for getting 
> this done.  I understand that there are a lot of independent attempts, 
> but I don't know the status of them or which ones, if any, are targeting 
> eventual inclusion in Phobos.

Is a strong argument that Python has SQLite bindings as standard and is
stronger because of it?

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