[Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.

[Phil Harris]

Surely the reason for using tar/gzip is for portability.

The same archive is usable on *nix and Win32.

|>-----Original Message-----
|>From: mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org [mailto:mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org]On
|>Behalf Of Chris McDonough
|>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 6:56 AM
|>To: rgeiger@bellsouth.net; zope@zope.org
|>Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.
|>
|>
|>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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|>> Chris McDonough
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|>Chris McDonough
|>Digital Creations, Inc.
|>Zope - http://www.zope.org
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