The Python special Interest group of the GNHLUG met last night and
watched Ed's presentation at PyCon, MST3K fashion. A good time was
had by all.
Ed mentioned during his presentation that dabo supported MySQL,
PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite, and that attempts had be made and
not yet completed to support Oracle and MS SQL. Ed cited problems
with MS SQL compatibility with access from platforms other than
Windows as a roadblock.
I don't know if this continues to be a major stumbling block for
folks, but a number of members were very interested in this point.
The older solutions used the Sybase TDS driver and attempts at the
ODBC layer. One of the participants cited Django going with pymssql
as their current interface. pymssql is GPL (although they are looking
at an LGPL license) and used the MS SQL DB-Library in C rather than
ODBC level calls, is up to version 0.7, and has been tested on a
variety of linuxes, BSDs, Solaris, OSX and WinXP against MS SQL 2000
and 2006. If anyone is interested in developing a dabo interface, you
can find pymssql here:
http://pymssql.sourceforge.net/
Hope that helps!
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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