TurboGears-1.0.4/SQLAlchemy-0.4 upgrade

[Yaakov Nemoy]

2008/2/11 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> Hello TurboGears application developers,
>
> We would like to upgrade the version of Turbogears and SQLAlchemy
> present on the Fedora Infrastructure app servers in the near future.
>
> There are a few details that make this an update that I would like to
> have people test heavily but overall it should be an easy upgrade for
> most people.  Details:
>
> TurboGears 1.0.4 is an update that retains TG-1.0.x compatibility.  We
> don't anticipate any problems with this portion.
>
> SQLAlchemy 0.4 is an incompatible update to SA-0.3.x.  TurboGears-1.0.4
> includes changes to allow us to use it with minimal porting.  Most
> Fedora Web apps are using SQLObject so they shouldn't be affected by
> this update.  python-fedora's tgfas, pkgdb, and smolt use SQLAlchemy.
> loupgaroublond has already ported smolt so porting tgfas and pkgdb
> should be all that is needed to enable this.  I'll be testing ports of
> both of those this week.

Smolt should still work on SQLAlchemy 0.3, maybe with some very minor
changes.  +1 for upgrading applications, as the new SA is very slick,
and TurboGears takes full advantage of this (like session creation
strategies that can be customized at a TurboGears level, so they can
be very intelligent about user sessions, or user threads, etc....).
Even so, there's no rush if we don't need to.

-Yaakov