[Zope] - Need installation recommendation

[Kevin Littlejohn]

Just as a data point, I have DCOracle installed in the site-packages
directory, and the DA installed under zope.  I think that's the best way
to do it, as DCOracle is a general-purpose package that will allow you
to talk to an Oracle db, while ZOracleDA is the zope-specific bit and
needs to be in the Products area.

(Same for ZMySQL, as I was already using MySQLmodule).  Gadfly as far
as I can tell is a _little_ bit different in terms of where it stores
it's database (it's not referencing a third-party db), but I would
imagine if the ZGadflyDA can do an 'import gadfly' successfully (ie,
if gadfly is installed in your python site-specific area), it should work
fine?

Incidentally, kudos to the guys for DCOracle - I'm going to have to have
more of a play with it, see how it stacks up to arb's Oracle module...

KevinL
(Oh, and if you 'install' DCOracle in the Products directory, you get a
non-broken DCOracle product that offers no real Zope interface ;)  Don't
do that ;)

>>> LD Landis wrote
> Hi,
> 
>   Ok... Before getting into Zope+Gadfly, et al, I played around with
>   installing Gadfly into the /usr/local/lib/python1.5 directory (since I
>   didn't see any harm in having that there, from my perspective)...
> 
>   I see that gadfly is also installed in the Zope lib... I currently have
>   the gadfly code in two places.
> 
>   Now that I'm ready to install the DCOracle stuff, etc... what is the best
>   way to do that?
> 
>   Do you recommend having separate library areas for each thing (like
>   gadfly, DCOracle, etc)? or just jam them all into the same lib?
> 
>   Is there anything about the DCOracle packaged in the Zope adapter that
>   would prevent just using what is placed elsewhere (e.g.
>   /usr/local/lib/python1.5 or subdir)?
> 
>   Now that I'm getting ready to start running a much more fully featured
>   Python... I'm looking for "the voice of experience" in how to lay it out
>   so that it can be managed.
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 	--ldl
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