[Zope] Installing ZoracleDA/DCOracle

[Shai Berger]

Hi guys,

We've been having quite some problems here with Zope and Oracle, and
I'm beginning to suspect minor binary incompatibilities between 
different components of our system. My main concern is this: We use
a binary Zope installation (2.2.5). DCOracle comes as a source-only 
distribution, because it needs to be compiled and linked against
the right versions of Oracle and Python. The thing is, the Python
that comes in a Zope binary installation cannot be used for this
compilation; we compiled DCOracle against our system's independent
Python 1.5.2 installation, put it in the ZOracleDA, and it works --
but makes Zope hang a lot in its select (I know because I killed it 
-INT, after it wouldn't respond to any connections including the 
monitor).

My first question is: Is anybody else using ZOracleDA/DCOracle with
a binary release? If so, how did you compile and link it? 

More generally, has anyone else (except for Dieter, who was kind
enough to share such an experience with a Zope 2.1.6) seen Zope
get stuck like this?

More generally yet, am I on a goose-chase? Does anybody have
experience passing binary libraries between Python installations,
and can tell me it always works?

Thanks,
        Shai.