Is it time to kill python-sqlite2 on Fedora >= 10?

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Sat Jan 17 23:31:15 UTC 2009


On 2009-01-17, 13:01 GMT, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
>> Is there something python-sqlite2 has which python2.5 doesn't?
> Well, python-sqlite2 gets to move ahead faster, there's the occasional
> performance boost tweak / new feature that takes forever to get into upstream
> python. 
>
> I'd minimize/remove dependencies on it, and then just ship the latest
> version for those developers that like to live on the edge :-)

Yeah, that's probably much more sane -- there is really no reason 
to remove python-sqlite2 from distro; if anybody wants to 
maintain, then she should certainly have a way. However, no-one 
should be forced to have it install against her will.

Best,

Matěj




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