On Wednesday 06 February 2008 08:17:58 pm Omer Zak wrote:
> 1. Integrate pymssql.py (including the Leafe patch, if necessary), to
>    serve people, who already have MS-SQL Server DB, to which they wish
>    to connect using Dabo-powered applications.
A decision was made a long time ago not to include the DB interface modules.  
Think about it.  The module is not really part of the Dabo framework any more 
than datetime is or any other module you might want to use.

> 2. Have the Connection Editor provide detailed diagnostics when testing
>    a newly-created connection fails - or at least display a message
>    pointing the newbie developer to the appropriate error.log file.
This is not a bad idea.  In fact dbMsSQL.py (so is Postgres) is missing any 
error reporting for the connection.  I'll look into it.  But I have to say 
that it will be a low priority.  Once the developer has installed the 
connection module (in this case pymssql) and has the correct connection 
parameters (host,port,user,passwd,database) he stops thinking about it.  It 
just works.

> 3. It would be a good idea for the Dabo Runtime Installers to reuse
>    an existing Python 2.5.1 installation if it is found (by adding the
>    appropriate directories to sys.path, and without installing files
>    in its standard lib/site-packages).

Dabo runtime installers was aimed at new windows users to get a feel for Dabo 
(at least one of the reasons).  It sounds like you are beyond just testing 
Dabo.  I suggest that you use SVN to download the Dabo source.  Since you 
already have a python install just use the 'pth' method to get Dabo working.  
The 'pth' method is - just add a 'Dabo.pth' file in the site-packages folder.  
The 'Dabo.pth' contains the path to your Dabo install.  I.e. "C:\dabo"


Let me make a suggestion.  Run your Dabo app from a command line.  You will 
see many more error messages.  Instead of double clicking on 
file "ClassDesigner.py"  open a DOS window (cd to the right directory) and 
use 'python ClassDesigner.py'.  You should see many more warnings and real 
error messages.  Of course ClassDesigner.py can be replaced with any python 
script.


-- 
John Fabiani


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