[Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation.

[Chris McDonough]

Hmmmm... as I'm not using Windows, I'm not really sure what you're
seeing.

At this point we must unfortunately make some implicit assumptions about
our user base.  We realize we've got a long way to go before we can
claim to be point, click, shoot and to be honest we may never get there.

Robert Geiger wrote:
> 
> OK.  I'll buy that.  Problem is, the File shown to me in the Archive
> did not have a .tar extension identifying it as what it was.  I know
> how to use tar files, and would have done so if I, a relative newbie
> to the linux world, had identified it.
> 
> I lead software product development for our company, and I can tell
> you that it is a good thing to try to think about these things from
> the point of view of those you would like to 'initiate' into the ranks
> of Zopista's, rather than the point of view of the well steeped.
> I.e., do everything you can to make if intuitively easy to go through
> the steps.  Toward that goal, let people know what version of winzip
> is required in the installation instructions.  Try to anticipate what
> Windoze users expect in a zip file.  The more obvious it is to do the
> 'simple' things needed to get to using zope productively, the greater
> the success of the product in the market you are pursuing.  Isn't
> that the point of KDE and GNOME and Caldera's Installation program,
> and many other efforts?  We don't need to insult anyone's intelligence,
> and I, for one, would like to be using the product for what it does,
> not debugging the installation of simple parts of it.
> 
> On the flip side, however, I am very please there IS an ODBC driver!!
> 
> The fact that I am even having this discussion proves a couple of things:
>         - I am very enthusiastic about Zope and it's prospects
>         - I want nothing but Zope domination in the Web world
>         - I recognize that packaging software is not easy
>         - I respect the hell out of what DC has done with Zope
> 
> Thanks for your assistance.  I will give it another try.


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Chris McDonough - Digital Creations, Inc.
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