[Python] Announce: sqlkit 0.8.6-rc2

[Alessandro Dentella]

                      ANNOUNCE: sqlkit 0.8.6-rc2

                        March, 25 - 2009


I'm happy to announce release 0.8.6-rc21 of sqlkit package for python.

  http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/

This release
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Many things have been added: signals, hooks for validation, improved filters
for related tables, many new demo snippets and many bug fixes are among the
most important ones.

Refer to http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/download/Changelog for details

The package
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SQLkit PyGtk package provides Mask and Table widgets to edit database
data. It's meant as a base for database desktop applications.

The application
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It also provides 'sqledit' a PyGTK application based on sqlkit that can be
used from command line to browse and edit data.

The package has 2 very rich demo suites for sql widgets (the main one in
sqlkit/demo/sql/demo.py) and for layout creation
  
Main features of sqlkit:
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  * editor of databases in 2 modes: table & mask
  * based on sqlalchemy: can cope with many different databases
  * very powerfull filtering capabilities:
        - each field can be used to filter records
	- filter may span relationship
        - date filtering possible also on relative basis (good for saved 
          queries)
  * completion on all text field and foreign keys
  * very easy way to draw a layout for mask views
  * completely effortless editing of relationships
  * very easy way to set defaults
  * possibility to display totals of numeric fields
  * any possible sql constraint can be attached to a Mask or a 
    Table. It can be expressed a s a normal sqlalchemy query or with 
    django-like syntax
  * sqledit: python script to edit db
  

Sqlkit is based on:
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  * python (>= 2.4)	
  * PyGtk	
  * Sqlalchemy (>= 0.5)
  * glade
  * dateutils
  * babel (localization)


Dowload & more:
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  * http://sqlkit.argolinux.org/sqlkit/download.html
  * hg clone http://hg.argolinux.org/py/sqlkit
  * google group: http://groups.google.it/group/sqlkit/
  * License: GNU GPL

-- 
Sandro Dentella  *:-)
http://sqlkit.argolinux.org        SQLkit home page - PyGTK/python/sqlalchemy