Alkali v0.5.5 has now escaped.

Code at github.com and docs at readthedocs.org.

Major features are:

• adding BoolField
• adding CSVStorage, load/save csv files
• queries are bit more efficient/fast, don't copy as many objects by default
• some doc cleanups

Alkali v0.5.4 has now escaped.

Code at github.com and docs at readthedocs.org.

Major features are:

• implemented Query.distinct
• implemented Query.annotate
• implemented Query.aggregate functions: Sum, Count, Min, Max
• Fields are now descriptors on Model instance
• added ForeignKey field
• models now cascade delete when ForeignKey instance is deleted
• minor speed ups
• IntField now has auto_increment property
• Query returns copies of Model instances
• added signals on model creation/deleting/saving/etc
• better documentation

Well, I finally released alkali into the wild.

Alkali is a simple database that makes it very easy to specify the on-disk format of your data. This makes it easy to use your existing data files as tables in a database. Plus the api is based off of Django models.

This is my first real project that I've released and it's a surprising amount of work. I have a new level of appreciation for all the libraries that I just blithely download and use without a second's thought.

For instance, it took about the same amount of time to write the docs as it did to write the actual code. Plus there are a lot of moving pieces to release open source software the right way.

• use git as your source code control
• write documentation, learn Sphinx and reStructuredText
• when you push to github, triggers are fired
  • run tests in travis-ci, learn how that works
  • regenerate docs at readthedocs.io, learn how that works
  • measure code coverage of tests at codecov.io and coveralls.io, learn how that works
• push release to PyPi, writing setup.py is very non-trivial, learn how that works
• try to do some marketing on Reddit. Given my zero karma I suck at marketing and/or programming.

So yeah… please go check out alkali!