Does it make sense to develop open source python library for database inspection?

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Published on 2011-02-10T18:51:41Z Indexed on 2011/02/10 23:33 UTC
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Some time ago I came up with an idea for a library for database inspection. I started developing it and got some very basic functionality, just to check if that's possible. Recently however, I get second thoughts, whether such project would really be useful. I am actually planning to develop following software suite:

  • library for python, that would provide easy interface to inspect database structure,
  • desktop application in PyQt that would use the interface to provide graphical database inspection,
  • web application in Django that would use the interface to provide database inspection through the browser.

Do you think such suite would be useful for other developers/database administrators/analysts?

I know, that there is pgadmin for PostgreSQL and some tool for sqlite3 and that there is Java tool called DBInspect. Usually I would be against creating new tool and rather join existing project, but I am not Java programmer (and I would rather stick to python or C, which I like) and none of these projects provide a library for database inspection.

Anyway I would like to hear some opinions from fellow developers, whether such project make sense or I should try to spend my free time on developing something else.

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