[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-Checkins] SVN: Zope/trunk/lib/python/Shared/DC/ZRDB/ Collector #556: sqlvar now returns 'null' rather than 'None'.

[Andreas Jung]

--On 10. Oktober 2005 11:03:54 -0300 Sidnei da Silva 
<sidnei at enfoldsystems.com> wrote:


>
> If I'm allowed to say anything, I would like to see gadfly being
> replaced by sqlite. It's available mostly everywhere except in Windows
> by default, as many products already use it. sqlite itself is 'public
> domain' and the python da has the same license as zlib if i recall,
> which is very permissive as well.
>

IMO there is no need to ship the Zope core  with *any* DB package except 
the ZODB. From the maintenance point of view  we should basically ship with 
packages that  we really need and that provide value to the core 
distribution. In Zope 2.6 we included Docutils with provided 
reStructuredText functionality. Updating and maintaining the package has 
been a minor pain in the past. Dealing with exploits in 3rd-party-packages 
(as it happened yesterday
with Docutils) is another issue. The core distribution should only ship 
with packages where we have a certain amount of expertise to deal with such 
issues. I assume nobody of us is a sqlite core developer and knows the 
sources. Otherwise we end up like Plone and ship with more 3rd-party 
packages from release to release.

-aj

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