gjhiggins/rdflib — Issue #115: decide what to do with sparql support
Author: gjhiggins
Created: 2011-10-19 01:25:08+00:00
State: open

Originally filed by eik...@gmail.com on 2010-02-09T15:24:06

The sparql support currently has a bunch of issues and is in need of some major cleanup. We've
recently removed a fair amount of unmaintained/unstable code from rdflib (all non core
functionality and mostly store implementations). If we hope to release rdflib 2.5.0 anytime soon
we will likely need to remove the sparql support (despite it being arguable more core than an
arbitrary store implementation).

If and when we get the sparql support into a more solid and working state we can include it back
into rdflib proper. Perhaps if we get enough of the original authors helping out we can work
though the issues in time for a 2.5 release like we did for the rest of the issues. Else let's work
on the sparql support over in the rdfextra project.

The sparql support already plugs into rdflib as a plugin and so separating it into its own release
should be straightforward.