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