Re: Any opinions on updating SQLAlchemy for F-13?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:53:03AM -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>  
>  It's a bit late for incompatible versions so I'm asking for opinions here:
>  
>  SQLAlchemy-0.6beta1 is out.  Should we update the SA package in F-13 to the
>  new version?  Things that have been deprecated throughout the 0.5 release
>  cycle have been removed so it's possible that some things will break with
>  this update.  We could push an  SA0.5 compat package as well as moving the
>  main SA to 0.6 but that won't solve the problem entirely -- it just means
>  people will need to patch code to use sys.path or setuptools to use the
>  proper SA instead of patching out deprecated code.  Migration docs:
>  
>  http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/wiki/06Migration
>  
>  So what are the benefits?  New features are available, speed increase via
>  a C extension, and support for building a python3 module are the notable
>  improvements.
>  
>  The new package is in F-14 (although not yet with thepython3 submodule or
>  the C extensions turned on.. working on that now) if you want to test it out
>  with your own packages/code.  Just not sure yet what to do about F-13.
>   
And a little update -- the cextension will be in the beta2 tarball, it's not
in the current beta1 tarball.

The python-sqlalchemy build with a python3 submodule is here:

  https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=160566

-Toshio