[Zope] DCOracle2?

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Wed Mar 3 17:01:03 EST 2004


Thanks for the updates Matt!
I see there's also a DCOracle2 section in the dev.zope.org site.
Probably that's out of date too...


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:57:48AM -0500, Matthew T. Kromer wrote:
> Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> >Paul Winkler wrote:
> >
> >>Is anybody still developing DCoracle2?
> >
> >
> >I have been known to make a tweak or two ;-)
> >
> >>What happened to matt at zope.com?
> >
> >
> >He became matt at bane.mi.org ;-)
> >
> >>Hi Matt,
> >>
> >>I'm playing with DCOracle2 and your page on zope.org is
> >>a bit garbled as to the current releases.
> >>At upper right on http://zope.org/Members/matt/dco2 you can see 
> >>"Latest Release: Pre Release 1", but that seems to be very old.
> >>
> >>
> 
> Zope.org is something I don't really touch anymore; I find it awkward to 
> work with, and the payoff isn't there.  The CVS sources are OK.  If I 
> were to do a lot of further maintenance on the project I'd be inclined 
> to move it to sourceforge, I think.
> 
> >>AFAICT the latest stable release is actually 1.2.
> >>Maybe it's time to declare 1.3 stable?
> >
> 
> The latest CVS is always "stable" in the sense that I never left things 
> checked in that were obviously busted (nonobvious bustings get called 
> features, you pay more for those).  The version nomenclature was mostly 
> a nod to how often I built the binaries, which isn't very often, since 
> everyone asks for "can I have a binary for python X against Oracle Y on 
> platform Z" and the build complexity ran up to some 21 or so 
> permutations and I stopped being interested in trying to maintain a 
> private build farm of those platforms.
> 
> Fortunately, everyone *except* the Windows users can build their own 
> binaries.  However, I no longer have access to a Windows build 
> environment (well, perhaps I have an old old version of Visual C++ if I 
> ever find the CD) so I don't build binaries anymore.

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