[Zope-dev] DCOracle and floats (was: DCOracle Problem on HPUX)

[Matthew T. Kromer]

"R. David Murray" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
> > However, if that's not the case, maybe a recent checkout of the DCOracle
> > CVS will help; I have made no announcement because the ONLY platform
> > I've tested on is Linux with Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5; Oracle is variant
> > enough that this doesn't represent a full validation.
> >
> > If you can't get DCOracle out of CVS, I'll send a tarball separately.
> 
> Ah, so maybe *you* are the person to whom I should have addressed
> my recent note that I sent to 'support@digicool.com'.  Are you
> aware of the issue a few of us have run into with DCOracle munging
> float values into ints?  Is this fixed in the CVS by any chance?
> In any case, how do I access the CVS version; I couldn't find it
> in the CVS web interface linked off of zope.com (I haven't tried
> to set up the non-web interface yet).

Yes, this is in the CVS version; Chris Petrilli will probably make an
announcment & a release soon.  The behavior is such that NUMBER with
neither scale nor precision is a float.