Does it make sense to develop open source python library for database inspection?
- by gruszczy
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.