On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:04, Carl Karsten wrote: > johnf wrote: > > On Sunday 17 December 2006 06:22, Ed Leafe wrote: > >> On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:25 PM, sheila miguez wrote: > >>> Is there any call for a #dabo irc channel? freenode.net allows groups > >>> to register and create permanent channels. > >> > >> I've never used IRC very much, and am not really set up to handle it. > >> > >> One of the things that I like about email is that every email is > >> archived, and can be searched at either http://leafe.com/archives/ > >> dabo-users, or hhttp://leafe.com/archives/dabo-dev. This way, > >> questions that have been answered here can be searched and possibly > >> help someone else. > >> > >> Is there a way to archive IRC conversation? > >> > >> -- Ed Leafe > >> -- http://leafe.com > >> -- http://dabodev.com > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Post Messages to: [email protected] > >> Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users > > > > Yes. The Lazarus guys archive all of the FPC channel. The only issue is > > it's yesterdays discussions. But I think it would be counter productive > > to have an IRC channel setup at the moment. If it suddenly died > > Define "died" and how that is any different than the current state? > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Well let's see. You and I were recently involved with making a connection to MsSQL for dabo There were two python interfaces available. One was created by a company called Object Craft. Because it looked like there was no activity we as group decided to use the other python module. I'll assume that you were part of that decision since you found the second module and did not voice any objection to selecting your find.
Well, last week Object Craft updated their interface for Sybase from the same author. So were we wrong in our assessment? Object Craft had an active website just like Dabo does. But we got the wrong impression some how. All I want to prevent is giving a wrong impression. An IRC with little to no activity just might do that. Current state: I believe the current dabo project is growing. Every week I notice more and more involvement. I see and hear more from third parties. I notice statements made about Python as a growing community. I see Python moving up the list of popular programming languages. Soon these new Python programmers will need desktop database apps. And I believe these programmers will find Dabo. I'll go one more step and say this will start in 2007. Dabo is still young and fragile. It wouldn't take much to blow the good will and support we currently have. Again only my .02 -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
