Thursday, July 06, 2006

sqlWrap and oraDifference, packaged right

In the past few months, I've written sqlWrap.py, a database connection convenience wrapper, and oraDifference.py (which depends on sqlWrap.py). I didn't have any particularly sane way to distribute them, though, and I apologize to anybody who made the attempt.

Well, it may amount to delusions of grandeur, but I registered them as a SourceForge project. Now they have
  • A single, sane place for downloads, properly versioned
  • A regular distutils python installer: unzip it, run 
    python setup.py install
    , and everything goes where it belongs (sqlWrap.py in your Python library, oraDifference.py in your python Scripts directory)
  • a Windows executable installer (oooh, aaah)
  • Homepages with documentation: for sqlWrap.py and oraDifference.py
Because oraDifference.py depends on sqlWrap.py, I put them together in a single install for simplicity.

This has been my first time working with Python's distutils module (so much easier than I expected!) and Sourceforge (not so much). It's been fun!
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:16 AM

    Great, thanks Catherine. We're trying to use Python more and more in our production environment, and tools like these make it easier to help win over mind share!

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  2. Anonymous12:24 AM

    Good work, are you accepting patches?

    Now all you need to do is create your distribution as an egg[1] and register the details at the cheese shop[2], although not necessarily in that order.

    [1] http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
    [2] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi

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  3. Unknown8:50 PM

    Andy,

    Thanks! Yes, patches, bug reports, comments, whatever... all eagerly accepted!

    My first crack (ha ha) at a Python egg didn't work out... I should keep trying, though, and when I've got it, I guess I'll go for the Cheese Shop. It's a little intimidating, because, well, it's the one and only Cheese Shop, and I've never seen any guideance on what exactly qualifies for it.

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  4. Anonymous4:31 AM

    How did you setup the Windows installer for the extension? I've got a Python extension (in C) which I need to create a windows installer for.

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