I just packaged up DCOracle2 Alpha 5 on Zope.org. Given that there are no glitches or geez-I-shouldnta-changed-that-at-the-last-minute fixes present, I'm ready to have a wider set of people eyballing it. A few have, largely just from seeing it show up on the News column of Zope.org. If you use DCOracle, either with Zope/ZOracleDA or directly, and are interested in evaluating it, I am currently welcoming all feedback, from packaging, documentation, functionality, etc. While I am nominally subscribed to zope-dev, I route all its mail into a separate folder that -- surprise, surprise -- I don't read very frequently. I strongly encourage people to contact me directly with their comments or questions. I have NT builds and Unix/NT source available at http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2 The NT build is against Oracle 8.1.7; I am not a real NT person so I don't know how portable that binary is. I am *NOT* interested in answering general Oracle questions; I'm trusting those who mail me will take this into consideration (i.e. if it isn't about DCOracle or DCOracle2...) This should build on Solaris with gcc and on Linux systems; I have no access to other platforms to try them. The 'make' command at the top directory should be sufficient to build from source on Solaris or Linux. Obviously, you need Oracle installed -- I get flaky behavior with Oracle 8.0 on Linux, but much better behavior with Oracle 8.1. Stupid database inserts (e.g. repeat 'INSERT INTO...' 100 times) seem to be about 25% faster than DCOracle. LOBS seem to work. Stored procedures (at least my simple ones) work. Complex stuff may not. I still have not done any REF CURSOR stored procedure testing, so that's probably quite buggy. Ditto automatic conversion for ROWIDs (see the documentation at how to get at the raw unconverted data). I get bad Oracle behavior (NULL data) trying to insert more than 8-10 rows with executemany() but it's very random and not visible where the problem is (it just *CANT* be an Oracle bug!) Anyone who wants to do platform migration to other 'nixes is encouraged to submit patches. If you rate the docs, please don't complain about formatting in the HTML version, as it's just a "save as..." HTML doc, and looks like it. The dco2documentation.aw file is the source document, but I've also provided postscript, rtf, and html versions. And, while there is a setup.py in the top level (for distutils) it isn't platform aware; Andreas Jung kindly provided it to me and I haven't spiffed it up, since I (like Majikthies and Vroomfondle) demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty (read: I know how to do it better with shell scripts & makefiles). Thanks, Matt Kromer matt@digicool.com