[Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.

[Chris McDonough]

That would surely explain it if we had a non-Win32 version of the
product he's trying to install :-)

Phil Harris wrote:
> 
> 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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