Hi David, Thank you for the thoughtful response.. I agree that having KInterbasdb would not solve our DA problem, but at least it would let me use the new Interbase Storage option.. A few people have been successful doing this, (compiling KInterbasdb with IB6beta) perhaps one of them could write up a HowTO? Thank you. Chris Beaumont David Trudgett wrote:

At 2000-06-23 11:40 -0700, you wrote:

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Hello..

I hope this isn't asking too much...

Can someone who has successfully compiled Kinterbasdb for use with Zope make non-programmer-friendly information on how to compile it for the current glibc and Version of Interbase (6.0 beta) available? I haven't been having any luck and my email to the author has bounced..

Even having Kinterbasdb compiled would not be the end of our problems. I believe a DA (Database Adapter) for Zope would still need to be written, and that would be a reasonably onerous task (even though there's a howto that says it's easy -- all things are relative I suppose). Given that you're a non-programmer, the task is well-nigh impossible. (I'm a programmer myself, but I don't think I have the required experience in database API programming/Zope/Python to make it reasonably feasible for me to do it (though I would like to, because I would like to access InterBase database(s) from within Zope).

I understand that the InterBase people are interested in getting InterBase working with Zope, and there is/was even an initiative to bring Zope and InterBase close together so that InterBase could serve the function that the ZODB currently fulfills. The InterBase people themselves are, of course, flat out at present getting version 6 ready for release within the next few days (unless they break their stated deadline of the end of June).

A possible work-around until an InterBase DA is available, might be to use IBPerl and Perl CGI or mod_Perl under Apache to read the InterBase database and output the required results, but wrap those results with Zope stuff (using SiteAccess, i believe). I'm only just starting to think about doing this myself, so don't ask me for any more detail than that! (Unfortunately, that suggestion may be a bit difficult if you don't program in Perl.)

Good luck.

David Trudgett