Re: Confused about install as sqlite2

[email protected] wrote:
>     Gerhard> It was me who requested that the externally maintained version
>     Gerhard> and the version in Python core are in different packages. 
> 
> Still, I found it confusing that one has a "2" and the other a "3".  That
> suggests that the external package is somehow "older" than the core
> package.  What was the rationale for that?

In pysqlite2, the "2" is the major number of *pysqlite*. In pysqlite 
0.x/1.x the module was called "sqlite", but version 2 had lots of 
cleanups and thus was API-incompatible, thus a different name.

In the package sqlite3 in Python core, the "3" stands for the SQLite 
version number used. The reason to not simple use the nicer/simpler 
"sqlite" name there was that the pysqlite 0.x/1.x package was/is still 
used out there.

-- Gerhard