[repoman] platform thoughts

[Paul Mattal]

Just in case the deep repository thinking doesn't generate any traffic, 
I figured I'd throw in something more practical and likely to generate 
replies, and also that will be immediately useful in getting things going:

1) I've started working in python for repoman. I think it's very 
flexible and likely to be a good choice for the project. Anyone want to 
lobby for another language before we settle on python?

2) I am settling on sqlite as squarely between a big RDBS like mysql and 
postgresql (which I'd like to avoid) and a text file (which may be 
underpowered for our purposes). What do people think about sqlite?

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?

- P