Author: reinhard
Date: 2005-06-01 06:41:19 -0500 (Wed, 01 Jun 2005)
New Revision: 7558
Removed:
trunk/gnue-common/README.databases
Modified:
trunk/README.txt
trunk/gnue-common/MANIFEST.in
trunk/gnue-common/doc/Connections.txt
trunk/gnue-forms/README.databases
Log:
Removed README.databases. It is outdated and obsolete, as the web page contains
current information.
Modified: trunk/README.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/README.txt 2005-06-01 11:26:50 UTC (rev 7557)
+++ trunk/README.txt 2005-06-01 11:41:19 UTC (rev 7558)
@@ -60,9 +60,7 @@
GNUe Common is required for any Python-based tools (GNUe Forms,
Reports, and Designer.) It defines a common code base for other
Python-based GNUe tools. GNUe-Common provides a consistent interface
- to many databases and database middleware adapters. See
- common/README for more information and common/README.databases for a
- list of supported database backends.
+ to many databases and database middleware adapters.
gnue-packages/
GNUe Packages is a set of definitions for geas that define various
Modified: trunk/gnue-common/MANIFEST.in
===================================================================
--- trunk/gnue-common/MANIFEST.in 2005-06-01 11:26:50 UTC (rev 7557)
+++ trunk/gnue-common/MANIFEST.in 2005-06-01 11:41:19 UTC (rev 7558)
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
include INSTALL
include NEWS
include README
-include README.databases
include THANKS
include TODO
include setup.cfg.in
Deleted: trunk/gnue-common/README.databases
===================================================================
--- trunk/gnue-common/README.databases 2005-06-01 11:26:50 UTC (rev 7557)
+++ trunk/gnue-common/README.databases 2005-06-01 11:41:19 UTC (rev 7558)
@@ -1,703 +0,0 @@
-INTRODUCTION
-============
-
-This is a summary of all backends supported by GNUe-Common (and, therefore,
-GNUe-Forms and GNUe-Reports). If your database is not listed, you may be
-able to connect using one of the middleware adapters.
-
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-Quick chart of supported databases:
- * PostgreSQL 6.x-7.x [via PyGreSQL, PyPgSQL, Psycopg, and PoPy]
- * MySQL 3.22-4.x [via MySQLdb]
- * Oracle 8.x/9i [via DCOracle2, cxOracle]
- * IBM DB/2 7.1 [via DB2-Python]
- * SAP-DB 7.x [via sapdb-python]
- * Interbase 5.x-6.x and Firebird 1.x [via Kinterbasdb]
- * Informix [via Kinfxdb]
- * OpenIngres 1.2, CA Ingres 6.4, CA Ingres II [via ingmod]
- * Sybase ASE 11.0.3/11.9.2 [via Sybase-Python]
- * SQLite 2.7 [via PySQLite]
- * Gadfly 1.0
-
-Quick chart of supported middleware:
- * GNUe AppServer [via GNURPC]
- * ADO [via adodbapi]
- * ODBC [via PythonWin ODBC]
- * SQLRelay [via SQLRelay-Python]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-A NOTE ON LICENSES
-==================
-
-Read each adapter's license carefully before using. Most licenses do allow
-both unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use (with the notable
-exception of mxODBC.) Restrictions on redistribution does, however, vary
-between the adapters.
-
-
-DATABASE ADAPTERS
-=================
-
-
-PostgreSQL
-==========
-
-*** PyGreSQL [http://druid.net/pygresql/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [no prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- GNU/Linux [Debian 2.x, Slackware 8.0, RedHat 6.x/7.x]
-
- Description:
- PyGreSQL is the standard PostgreSQL-Python driver.
- It is compliant to Python's DB-API 2.0.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=pygresql # Use the pygresql adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the postgresql host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the pg database
- encoding=ASCII # Optional: the client encoding for PG
-
-
-
-*** PyPgSQL [http://pypgsql.sf.net/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- GNU/Linux [Debian 2.x, Slackware 8.0, RedHat 6.x/7.x]
- Windows 98
-
- Description:
- Written by Billy Allie, PyPgSQL is a database interface for
- PostgreSQL 7.x.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
- [myconn]
- provider=pypgsql # Use the pypgsql adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the postgresql host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the pg database
- encoding=ASCII # Optional: the client encoding for PG
-
-
-
-*** Psycopg [http://initd.org/software/psycopg/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- From the Psycopg website: "It was written from scratch with the aim of
- being very small and fast, and stable as a rock." Written by initd.org
- volunteers.
-
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=psycopg # Use the psycopg adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the postgresql host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the pg database
- encoding=ASCII # Optional: the client encoding for PG
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Available in Debian [sid] as: "apt-get install python-psycopg"
-
-
-
-*** PoPy [http://popy.sf.net/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by Thierry Michel and friends. Strong multi-thread support.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=popy # Use the PoPy adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the postgresql host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the pg database
- encoding=ASCII # Optional: the client encoding for PG
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Available in Debian [sid,woody] as: "apt-get install python-popy"
-
-
-
-MySQL
-=====
-
-*** MySQLdb [http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries at http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- GNU/Linux [Debian Sarge,RedHat 7.x]
-
- Description:
- Written by Andy Dustman, this driver supports MySQL 3.22, 3.23, and
- 4.x.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=mysql # Use the MySQLdb adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the MySQL host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the MySQL database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Transactions are supported if MySQL is compiled with proper
- transactional support (3.x series does NOT do this by default!)
-
- 2. This driver has been partially tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
-
-
-Oracle
-======
-
-*** DCOracle [http://www.zope.org/Members/matt/dco2]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries (WinNT only)]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- GNU/Linux [Debian Woody/Sarge, RedHat 7.x]
-
- Description:
- An Oracle driver from Digital Creations (Zope). Works with Oracle
- 7.3, 8.x, 9i via Oracle's SQL-Net OCI interface.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=oracle # Use the DCOracle2 adapter
- service=mytnsname # The TNS connection string of the database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Requires Oracle Client Libraries
-
- 2. Does not recognize the TWO_TASK environment setting.
-
-
-
-*** cxOracle [http://www.computronix.com/utilities/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ???
-
- Description:
- An Oracle driver from Computronix. Works with Oracle 7.3 and 8.x via
- Oracle's SQL-Net OCI interface.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=cxoracle # Use the CX Oracle adapter
- service=mytnsname # The TNS connection string of the database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Requires Oracle Client Libraries.
-
- 2. Does not recognize the TWO_TASK environment setting.
-
- 3. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
-
-
-IBM DB/2
-========
-
-** DB2-Python [ftp://people.linuxkorea.co.kr/pub/DB2/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- A DB/2 driver from Bryan Lee. Works with IBM's DB/2 version 7.1.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=db2 # Use the DB/2 adapter
- service=mydsn # The DSN connection string of the database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. The Win32 binaries are included in the tar'ed file (in win32/)
-
- 2. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 3. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-SAP-DB
-======
-
-*** SAP-DB [http://www.sapdb.org/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by the SAP-DB people, this driver is part of the SAP DB
- distribution. Works with the 7.x series of SAP-DB
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=sapdb # Use the SAP-DB adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the SAP-DB host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the SAP-DB database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
-
-
-Informix
-========
-
-*** Kinfxdb [http://thor.prohosting.com/~alexan/pub/Kinfxdb/Kinfxdb-0.2.tar.gz]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by Alexander Kuznetsov, this driver provides support for
- Informix.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=informix # Use the Kinfxdb adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the Informix host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the Informix database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-Interbase
-=========
-
-*** Kinterbasdb [http://kinterbasdb.sf.net/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- Win2k, Debian 3.0
-
- Description:
- Written by Alexander Kuznetsov, this driver provides support for
- Interbase.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=interbase # Use the Kinterbasedb adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the Interbase host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the Interbase database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
-
-
-OpenIngres, CA Ingres, CA Ingres II
-===================================
-
-*** ingmod [http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~hme/software/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by Holger Meyer, this driver supports OpenIngres, as well as
- the various CA Ingres solutions.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=ingres # Use the ingmod adapter
- dbname=mydb # The name of the Ingres database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-Informix
-========
-
-*** Kinfxdb [http://thor.prohosting.com/~alexan/pub/Kinfxdb/Kinfxdb-0.2.tar.gz]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by Alexander Kuznetsov, this driver provides support for
- Informix.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=informix # Use the Kinfxdb adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the Informix host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the Informix database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-Sybase
-======
-
-*** Sybase [http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/sybase/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [no prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- Written by David Cole, this driver works with the 11.x.x series
- of Sybase ASE.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=sybase # Use the Sybase adapter
- host=localhost # The hostname/IP of the Sybase host
- dbname=mydb # The name of the Sybase database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-SQLite
-======
-
-*** PySQLite [http://pysqlite.sourceforge.net/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES
-
- Platforms Tested:
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
-
- Description:
- SQLite is a powerful embedded relational database management system
- in a compact C library, developed by D. Richard Hipp. The library is
- self-contained ... itself is uncopyrighted, and free to use for any
- purpose.
-
- SQLite is not a client library used to connect to a big database server.
- SQLite is the server. The SQLite library reads and writes directly to
- and from the database files on disk.
-
- PySQLite is a Python extension for SQLite that conforms to the Python
- Database API Specification 2.0. The source is released under the
- Python license.
-
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=sqlite # Use the SQLite adapter
- dbname=/usr/db/testdb # The filename for the SQLite database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. The database engine stores all data in string format. Many
- SQL statements won't work. Comparison of date types won't work
- correctly, etc.
-
-
-
-Gadfly
-======
-
-*** Gadfly [http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES
-
- Platforms Tested:
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
-
- Description:
- Gadfly is a simple relational database system implemented in Python
- based on the SQL Structured Query Language.
-
- Gadfly is not a client library used to connect to a big database server.
- Gadfly is the server. The Gadfly library reads and writes directly to
- and from the database files on disk.
-
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=gadfly # Use the gadfly adapter
- dbname=testdb # The filename for the gadfly database
- # (without extension)
- directory=/usr/db # The directory where the gadfly database
- # is stored
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. The database engine stores all data in string format. Many
- SQL statements won't work. Comparison of date types won't work
- correctly, etc.
-
- 2. The database engine doesn't support the sql condition "LIKE", it
- will replaced by the condition "=" (equal) for the moment.
-
-
-
-
-MIDDLEWARE ADAPTERS
-===================
-
-
-GNUe Application Server (gnue-appserver)
-========================================
-
-*** gnue/appserver [http://www.gnue.org/]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES
-
- Platforms Tested:
- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
- MS Windows 98
-
- Description:
- GNUe's own Enterprise Application Server, currently under heavy
- development, provides a business rules and data backend. Works
- with a variety of databases. [Not yet stable]
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider = appserver # Use the GNUe appserver adapter
- rpctype = xmlrpc # connect via xmlrpc ( for a list of
- # GNURPC protocols look at doc/RPC-status.txt
- host = localhost # The hostname/IP of the GNUe App. host
- port = 8765 # The portnumber of " " "
- transport = http # The transport used by the RPC protocol
-
-
-ADO
-===
-
-*** adodbapi [http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodbapi]
-
- POSIX Support: NO
- Win32 Support: YES
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- A Python DB-API 2.0 module that makes it easy to use Microsoft ADO
- for connecting with databases and other data sources.
-
- Features:
- * 100% DB-API 2.0 compliant.
- * Includes pyunit testcases that describes how to use the module.
- * Fully implemented in Python.
- * Licensed under the LGPL license, which means that it can be used
freely even in commercial programs subject to certain restrictions.
- * Supports eGenix mxDateTime, Python 2.3 datetime module and Python
time module.
-
- Prerequisites:
- * Python 1.5.2 or higher.
- * Mark Hammond's win32all python for windows extensions.
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=adodbapi # Use the adodbapi adapter
- connstr = Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\mydb.mdb; #
The full connection string
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
-
-ODBC
-====
-
-*** PythonWin ODBC
[http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/Extensions/Win32all]
-
- POSIX Support: NO
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- A commercial ODBC interface for Python written by Marc-Andr�emburg.
- Supports practically any database backend with ODBC drivers (are there
- any without ODBC drivers?)
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=odbc # Use the ODBC adapter
- service=mydsn # The DSN connection string of the database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not yet support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-*** mxODBC [http://www.lemburg.com/files/python/mxODBC.html]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: YES [prebuilt binaries]
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- A commercial ODBC interface for Python written by Marc-Andr�emburg.
- Supports practically any database backend with ODBC drivers (are there
- any without ODBC drivers?)
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=mxodbc # Use the mxODBC adapter
- service=Subdriver|mydsn # The DSN connection string of the database
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. The mxODBC driver is only free for non-commercial use! Check their
- license before using.
-
- 2. Uses Windows ODBC drivers natively, but on Unix, requires subpackages
- to be installed. Under Windows, the Subdriver (in the service=
- entry) will always be "Windows" (e.g., "service=Windows|mydsn" )
- However, under Unix, the Subdriver will be the subpackage name (e.g,
- "PostgreSQL", "Oracle", "iODBC", "unixODBC") See the mxODBC
- documentation for more information.
-
- 3. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 4. This driver does not support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
-
-
-SQLRelay
-========
-
-*** SQLRelay [http://www.firstworks.com/sqlrelay.html]
-
- POSIX Support: YES
- Win32 Support: ???
-
- Platforms Tested:
- ??? (We need your help!)
-
- Description:
- From FirstWork's website: "SQL Relay is a persistent database
- connection pooling, proxying and load balancing system for Unix
- and Linux."
-
- Example connections.conf entry:
-
- [myconn]
- provider=sqlrelay # Use the SQLRelay adapter
- host=hostname # The host running SQLRelay
- port=9000
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. This driver has not been fully tested. If you are successfully using
- this driver, please let us know.
-
- 2. This driver does not support schema introspection, so you will not
- be able to use Wizards in GNUe Designer.
-
Modified: trunk/gnue-common/doc/Connections.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/gnue-common/doc/Connections.txt 2005-06-01 11:26:50 UTC (rev
7557)
+++ trunk/gnue-common/doc/Connections.txt 2005-06-01 11:41:19 UTC (rev
7558)
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@
Providers
---------
-See README.databases for a complete list of providers.
+See http://www.gnuenterprise.org/tools/common/databases/ for a complete list of
+providers.
--------------
Modified: trunk/gnue-forms/README.databases
===================================================================
--- trunk/gnue-forms/README.databases 2005-06-01 11:26:50 UTC (rev 7557)
+++ trunk/gnue-forms/README.databases 2005-06-01 11:41:19 UTC (rev 7558)
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-GNUe Forms supports numerous databases via GNUe-Common. See the
-README.databases file in the GNUe-Common package for information
-on supported databases.
+GNUe Forms supports numerous databases via GNUe-Common.
+
+See http://www.gnuenterprise.org/tools/common/databases/ for information on
+supported databases.
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