Dear comrades in zopeness: For some time now I have been struggling trying to get Zope to talk to Postgres. I am now nearly successful and hope that the revolutionary spirit of fellow zopatistas will carry the day. Background: Debian 2.1r2 on a PII 600 or so (the machine is pretty loaded) Postgres 7.0.3 Python 1.5.2 PoPy 1.4.1 ZPoPyDA 0.7 The most recent vexation is simple: after expanding ZPoPyDA.0.7.tar.gz (dl'ed from www.zope.org/Members/tm), there is no configure file and no Makefile. Like many products, it just expands out into lib/python/Products/ZPoPyDA/*. However, the README file says to run "./configure; make; make install". In an acronym, WTF? Bonus question: I had a terrible time with installing PoPy itself until I modified the makefile to have a second -I argument going back to the source (.../postgres-7.0.3/src/include). One or the other (the source or the installed include, that is) would result in various missing *.h files. Did I install postgres incorrectly? There was no .../include/catalog directory at all in the installed directories, which PoPy wanted. I eagerly anticipate any clues, and thank everyone for their attention. --JB
the most recent versions of popy are currently hosted on sourceforge. http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/popy http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zpopy popy wants some includes which are not included in a normal source make of popy. catalog/fe??h. i generally just copy them over from the source directory to the installation directory also if anyone is curious popy seems to work fine against postgres7.1b3, which includes massive improvements to postgres. no 8k row limits, outer joins, speed improvements, etc. cheers kapil On Monday 22 January 2001 12:11, J B Bell wrote:
Dear comrades in zopeness:
For some time now I have been struggling trying to get Zope to talk to Postgres. I am now nearly successful and hope that the revolutionary spirit of fellow zopatistas will carry the day.
Background:
Debian 2.1r2 on a PII 600 or so (the machine is pretty loaded) Postgres 7.0.3 Python 1.5.2 PoPy 1.4.1 ZPoPyDA 0.7
The most recent vexation is simple: after expanding ZPoPyDA.0.7.tar.gz (dl'ed from www.zope.org/Members/tm), there is no configure file and no Makefile. Like many products, it just expands out into lib/python/Products/ZPoPyDA/*. However, the README file says to run "./configure; make; make install". In an acronym, WTF?
Bonus question: I had a terrible time with installing PoPy itself until I modified the makefile to have a second -I argument going back to the source (.../postgres-7.0.3/src/include). One or the other (the source or the installed include, that is) would result in various missing *.h files. Did I install postgres incorrectly? There was no .../include/catalog directory at all in the installed directories, which PoPy wanted.
I eagerly anticipate any clues, and thank everyone for their attention.
--JB
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:11:31PM -0800, J B Bell wrote:
Dear comrades in zopeness:
For some time now I have been struggling trying to get Zope to talk to Postgres. I am now nearly successful and hope that the revolutionary spirit of fellow zopatistas will carry the day.
Background:
Debian 2.1r2 on a PII 600 or so (the machine is pretty loaded) Postgres 7.0.3 Python 1.5.2 PoPy 1.4.1 ZPoPyDA 0.7
The most recent vexation is simple: after expanding ZPoPyDA.0.7.tar.gz (dl'ed from www.zope.org/Members/tm), there is no configure file and no Makefile. Like many products, it just expands out into lib/python/Products/ZPoPyDA/*. However, the README file says to run "./configure; make; make install". In an acronym, WTF?
Documentation mistake. Thierry, the main author, is French, was working for an Italian firm at the time of that release, and trying to document in English. Not an ideal situation.
Bonus question: I had a terrible time with installing PoPy itself until I modified the makefile to have a second -I argument going back to the source (.../postgres-7.0.3/src/include). One or the other (the source or the installed include, that is) would result in various missing *.h files. Did I install postgres incorrectly? There was no .../include/catalog directory at all in the installed directories, which PoPy wanted.
If you installed postgres and postgres-dev from debian, it should have installed clean. The packages were developed under Debian! Also note that zope-zpopyda and python-popy are part of debian. The Debian version of these packages are a bit stale. I should have new ones uploaded by Next Monday. Also, there is a far newer version available from http://www.sourceforge.net/package/projects/popy and http://www.sourceforge.net/package/projects/zpopyda Jim Penny
I eagerly anticipate any clues, and thank everyone for their attention.
--JB
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:07:14PM -0500, jpenny@universal-fasteners.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:11:31PM -0800, J B Bell wrote:
[JB whines about his troubles, including the mysterious instructions to configure, make, & make install]
Documentation mistake. Thierry, the main author, is French, was working for an Italian firm at the time of that release, and trying to document in English. Not an ideal situation.
LOL!!! Now I feel much less harshly about his struggle. Geez, what a pain.
[PoPy wants includes not in my postgres install]
If you installed postgres and postgres-dev from debian, it should have installed clean. The packages were developed under Debian! Also note that zope-zpopyda and python-popy are part of debian.
The Debian version of these packages are a bit stale. I should have new ones uploaded by Next Monday.
Urm, yeah. I'm an old FreeBSD curmudgeon, so I all-too-happily install from tarballs if the packages are not fresh enough for my taste. Presumably I should be running woody.
Also, there is a far newer version available from http://www.sourceforge.net/package/projects/popy and http://www.sourceforge.net/package/projects/zpopyda
Aha! Now, here I feel complaint is not out of order. These versions worked great (though I still needed to hack the Makefile for PoPy). If there were reference on the Zope site, I could have avoided at least a couple hours' suffering. I know it's a pain maintaing a site (heck, my personal site is years out of date), but would it be too awful to just note "development is now being carred out at sourceforge.net, please go there"? Anyway, thanks to all for your help. I should have noted, btw, that I am subscribed to the list, so there's no need to Cc: me.
Jim Penny
Cheers! --JB
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