the import structure of many core modules.
``sqlalchemy.schema`` and ``sqlalchemy.types``
remain in the top-level package, but are now just lists of names
that pull from within ``sqlalchemy.sql``.  Their implementations
are now broken out among ``sqlalchemy.sql.type_api``, ``sqlalchemy.sql.sqltypes``,
``sqlalchemy.sql.schema`` and ``sqlalchemy.sql.ddl``, the last of which was
moved from ``sqlalchemy.engine``.  ``sqlalchemy.sql.expression`` is also
a namespace now which pulls implementations mostly from ``sqlalchemy.sql.elements``,
``sqlalchemy.sql.selectable``, and ``sqlalchemy.sql.dml``.
Most of the "factory" functions
used to create SQL expression objects have been moved to classmethods
or constructors, which are exposed in ``sqlalchemy.sql.expression``
using a programmatic system.  Care has been taken such that all the
original import namespaces remain intact and there should be no impact
on any existing applications.   The rationale here was to break out these
very large modules into smaller ones, provide more manageable lists
of function names, to greatly reduce "import cycles" and clarify the
up-front importing of names, and to remove the need for redundant
functions and documentation throughout the expression package.

whereas the other do_rollback_twophase(), savepoint etc. work with
:class:`.Connection`.  the context on these are different as twophase/savepoint
are available at the :class:`.Connection` level, whereas commit/rollback are needed
at a lower level as well.  Rename the argument to "dbapi_connection" when the conneciton
is in fact the DBAPI interface.
- start thinking about being able to track "autocommit" vs. "commit", but not sure
we have a need for this yet.
- have Pool call out to a Dialect for all rollback/commit/close operations now.  Pool
no longer calls DBAPI methods directly.  May use this for a workaround for [ticket:2611]
- add a new Pool event reset() to allow the pool's reset of the connection to be intercepted.
- remove methods in Informix dialect which appear to be hardcoding some isolation
settings on new Transaction only; the isolation API should be implemented for Informix.
also removed "flag" for transaction commit/rollback being not available; this should
be based on server/DBAPI version and we will need someone with test access in order
to help determine how this should work

- build a new Sphinx extension that allows dialect info
to be entered as directives which is then rendered consistently
throughout all dialect/dbapi sections
- break out the "empty_strings" requirement for oracle test

- begin consolidating docs for dialects to be more self contained
- add a separate section for "external" dialects
- not sure how we're going to go with this yet.

    accepts "fst" argument which is the new
    "fractional seconds" specifier for recent
    MySQL versions.  The datatype will interpret
    a microseconds portion received from the driver,
    however note that at this time most/all MySQL
    DBAPIs do not support returning this value.
    [ticket:2534]
- attempted to modernize the types tests in test_mysql a little, though has a long
way to go

- see #2385