[Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.

[Chris McDonough]

When WinZip opens the file it comes up with a dialog something like:

This file contains a compressed archive.  Do you want to open it in a
temporary directory?

Say yes.  Then you'll have the winzip screen that should show a bunch of
files in it.  Press Extract.

When it asks you where you want to extract to, choose the Zope top-level
folder by browsing through the dir trees.  Make sure the option to
"expand with folder names" (or something like that) is checked before
you hit OK.

Hit OK.

It will write all the files out.  You should end up with a directory in
your lib\python\Products folder that is named something like "ZODBCDA"
which contains files that belong to the ZODBC adapter (such as
__init__.py and others).

When you restart Zope, the database adapter should show up in the list
of products.

The main gist here is that the gz file you download contains only one
file, which is a "tar" archive.  Tar is a UNIX format that stands for
tape archive.  It's an old, old format that has a long legacy.  But you
don't need to know much about it.  All you really need to know is that
it contains files and directories that need to be written out to disk. 
The tar archive isn't compressed.  Gzip does this for us.

I imagine we don't use the ZIP file format because tar and gzip are so
familiar to us, and we use these formats for all our other
distributions.

I suggest reading the WinZip help stuff for more info.  You're going to
run into this again.


Robert Geiger wrote:
> 
> I used Winzip on the gz file.  What I don't understand is why this would be
> saved in a compressed format that, although supported in the latest version
> of winzip, is not the defacto standard ZIP file format so familiar to
> Windoze users???   It would be friendlier to previous versions of Winzip.
> Just a thought.
> 
> I still don't know exactly what to do with this file, so if you have any
> ideas, please let me know.  Thanks for your assistance.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org [mailto:mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org]On
> Behalf Of Chris McDonough
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:06 PM
> To: rgeiger@bellsouth.net
> Cc: Zope
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.
> 
> Did you untar and ungzip it?  Download WinZip and doubleclick it,
> expanding it into your top-level Zope folder.
> 
> Robert Geiger wrote:
> >
> > I have followed the directions with the ODBC adapter to no avail.  I place
> > it in the top level zope dir on NT server machine and restart.  This is
> all
> > the instructions say to do.  I do not see the adapter.  What else do I
> have
> > to do to get this to work???
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> >
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