[repoman] platform thoughts

[Jürgen Hötzel]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:20:02PM -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:

> 3) I would like to use a simple ORM to do *most* things. It's just less 
> code to get wrong. Obviously, we could still write pure SQL against the 
> db at any time. What do people recommend for a python ORM that supports 
> sqlite? SQLObject is around, the django db api is another option (easy 
> addition of web interfaces later), and there's also SQLAlchemy, I think, 
> and maybe one or two others. Thoughts?

So reposity management will depend on an python web application framework?

Will this bring in all the python bloat (which reminds me on broken Gentoo
systems due to python updates)? I would prefer a lightweight simple tool,
which just the one thing well (repository management) and build other tools
(like web frontend) around it. 

Jürgen