better documentation. Did you notice the SQL console program which works like the MySQL prompt but for all supported databases in portable mode?
That is a nice. Very nice.
More generally, do people feel this is a useful piece of software?
Unfortunately, no - for philosophical and practical reasons I see many issues with it, at least for myself.
Since the same API is used to access all underlying DB-API 2.0 drivers, this could be a useful way of distributing all the DB-API drivers in one package. If people wanted to implement drivers for the databases they use we could implement a feasible database abstraction layer that was genuinely portable when used in portable mode and provided full access to the underlying database in direct mode. Would this not form a useful basis for a DB-API 3.0?
The concept, yes, would form a useful basis for DBAPI 3, but I don't know about the current implementation. ADOdb, being a port, isn't very pythonic (IMHO), and as such is not suitable either.
But lets use this opportunity to talk - to talk about what we think is needed in dbapi3. I know I have a lot of ideas/thoughts - and am writing code for a demo implementation of my ideas as well. I've been writing code because the last 2 (3, 5?) times the next dbapi spec has been discussed here, the conversations were animated but eventually died without any actual progress.
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