- the dialects within sqlalchemy.databases become a setuptools

entry points. loading the built-in database dialects works the
same as always, but if none found will fall back to trying
pkg_resources to load an external module [ticket:521]

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 48bbb9c9c..552c9265c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ setup(name = "SQLAlchemy",
     url = "http://www.sqlalchemy.org",
     packages = find_packages('lib'),
     package_dir = {'':'lib'},
+    entry_points = { 
+      'sqlalchemy.databases': [
+        '%s = sqlalchemy.databases.%s:dialect' % (f,f) for f in 
+          ['sqlite', 'postgres', 'mysql', 'oracle', 'mssql', 'firebird']]},
     license = "MIT License",
     long_description = """\
 SQLAlchemy is: