Proboscis as Portable Driver

Randall Smith randall at tnr.cc
Sat Apr 22 19:05:47 UTC 2006


Though, I'm not a Java developer, I've long been impressed by the
portability of pure Java database drivers and wanted this in Python even
at a moderate performance penalty.  I started work on my own before I
ran across PostgresPy and specifically Proboscis.  In the goals section
of the docs, it mentions a DB-API 2.0 interface and I was thrilled when
I saw dbapi2.py in cvs.

So now I'm wondering how difficult would it be to provide a portable
driver using Proboscis.  By portable, I mean you can include the driver
with your application so that there are no external requirements other
than the Python interpreter and standard library.  Maybe a Python egg?

I'm going along to play with dbapi2.py and eggs.  Thanks for the great
software.

Randall


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