Added a backward compatibility stub for pysqlite2.

.gitignore

@@ -107,7 +107,6 @@ config.log
 /addons/visualization.waveform/Waveform_win32.vis
 /addons/visualization.itunes/iTunes.mvis
 /addons/script.module.pil/
-/addons/script.module.pysqlite/
 
 # /xbmc/guilib/
 /xbmc/guilib/Makefile
@@ -129,8 +128,6 @@ config.log
 # /lib/addons/
 /lib/addons/script.module.pil/
 !/lib/addons/script.module.pil/Makefile
-/lib/addons/script.module.pysqlite/
-!/lib/addons/script.module.pysqlite/Makefile
 
 # /lib/asap/
 /lib/asap/Makefile

addons/script.module.pysqlite/addon.xml

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <addon id="script.module.pysqlite"
-       name="Python SQLite library"
+       name="Python SQLite library hook"
        version="2.5.6"
        provider-name="Gerhard Haering">
   <requires>
-    <import addon="xbmc.python" version="1.0"/>
+    <import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.0"/>
   </requires>
   <extension point="xbmc.python.module"
              library="lib" />

addons/script.module.pysqlite/lib/pysqlite2/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+
+# if we got here then someone tried to import pysqlite.dbapi2
+# this will only be allowed if the script is greater that version 1.0
+
+import warnings
+
+# Not sure why this might fail but ....
+try:
+    import __main__
+    xbmcapiversion = __main__.__xbmcapiversion__
+except:
+    xbmcapiversion = "1.0"
+    warnings.warn("For some reason the module'" + std(__name__) + "' couldn't get access to '__main__'. This may prevent certain backward compatility modes from operating correctly.")
+
+# if the xbmcapiversion is either not set (because trying to get it failed or 
+#  the script was invoked in an odd manner from xbmc) ...
+if (float(xbmcapiversion) <= 1.0):
+    # then import sqlite3 in place of dbapi2
+    try:
+        import sqlite3 as dbapi2
+    except Exception, e:
+        warnings.warn("Unable to import sqlite3. This probably means you're on a version of python prior to 2.5 and trying to run an old script.")
+        raise e
+
+    # whine like a sissy ...
+    warnings.warn("DeprecationWarning: the pysqlite2 module is deprecated; stop being lazy and change your script to use sqlite3.")
+else:
+    raise DeprecationWarning("You cannot use pysqlite2 while depending on version " + str(xbmcapiversion) + " of the xbmc.python api. Please use sqlite3 instead.")
+