Thanks for the heads up. I'm getting very close to having the test suite pass. After I accomplish that goal and establish a more solid reference point for django-mssql, I'll look in to the work you've done with adodbapi.
Regards, Michael Manfre On Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:14:23 AM UTC-4, VernonCole wrote: > > I should mention that if you use pywin32 build 215 or newer, an > appropriate version of adodbapi will already be included. You do not need > to download it separately from sourceforge or PyPi unless you are running > IronPython. Since pywin32 is already a dependency for django-mssql, you > should be covered. Also, it should not be too hard to add support for > ACCESS and 3rd party databases. > -- > Vernon > > On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:27:00 PM UTC-6, Michael Manfre wrote: >> >> A few weeks ago, I started down the path of updating django-mssql so that >> it supports Django 1.4. I moved the project over to bitbucket ( >> http://bitbucket.org/Manfre/django-mssql/), docs are deployed to read >> the docs (http://django-mssql.readthedocs.org), and have made it a >> policy of deploying packages to PyPi. >> >> Django 1.4 support is mostly there and so far is passing all testing for >> the site responsible for the backend's existence (http://www.src.org). >> To help avoid surprises and ensure life as a 3rd party database backend >> maintainer is a lot less painful, I have set a goal of having django-mssql >> pass the test suite. This is a non-trivial task that will require changes >> to django and django-mssql. I've already submitted a few tickets that bring >> me closer to my goal and it was advised that I send this message as a heads >> up regarding my intentions to avoid tickets being closed with a "mssql >> isn't officially supported by Django" comment. >> >> If you review one of these tickets, please keep my goal in the back of >> your mind. I welcome feedback on better ways of approaching my proposed >> changes. >> >> Regards, >> Michael Manfre >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/NPgGiBa2iegJ. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
