[Tutor] Gadfly... missing?

[Israel Evans]

Nuts!


I liked Gadfly.  It was small, simple (because it was a python thing), and
it was portable.  Now I have to figure out which of the "Big Boys" I should
fall back on.  Sometimes, it feels that the big databases are using a
backhoe when all I need is a spoon.

What do you think dman, fellow pythonistas?  Which of the "free" database
packages have you enjoyed working with?  Which python modules have you used
to connect to them?

I'm going to be working on both MacOSX and Debian with, perhaps a sprinkling
of windows if I can't avoid it, so I'd like something useable on either of
these platforms.  I'll be using the DB for webserving stuff, and your basic
educational experimentation type stuff.  Really I'll just be toying around
with python and databases and wxPython, Cocoa (when I get my hands on a
g4/g5?), and Aqua (because it's perty).

I see my choices could be between Zope, MySQL, PostgreSQL ( using cygwin ),
and possibly BerkelyDB.  What's your favorite?

Thanks,
In mourning'ly yours.



~Israel~


-----Original Message-----
From: dman [mailto:dsh8290@rit.edu] 
Sent: 19 March 2002 6:30 AM
To: 'tutor@python.org'
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Gadfly... missing?

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:07:46AM -0800, Israel Evans wrote:
|  
| Hey, 
|  
| Does anybody know if anything terrible has happened to Gadfly?  I've
| been trying to get the funky little Pythonic Database for two days
| now, but it seems www.chordate.com <http://www.chordate.com/>  is
| down and out.  Is this a temporary thing or will I have to mourn the
| demise of a snazzy product?

Likely you'll have to mourn its demise.  It doesn't appear to be
actively maintained any more, and the mailing list contains nothing
but spam.  The test suite works with 1.5.2 and 2.1 but issues
deprecation warnings.  The test suite fails with 2.2.

If you want a copy, you can grab it from
 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gadfly/gadfly_1.0-7.2_all.deb

A ".deb" is just an 'ar' archive that contains a file and a 2
tarballs.  The tarball contains all the files you're looking for.  If
you're stuck in windows, install cygwin.  To get the stuff you want
out of it :
    $ ar x gadfly_1.0-7.2_all.deb
    $ tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

HTH,
-D

PS. I'm sorry to see it go too.  It's the easiest way to begin working
    with SQL, and also the easiest way to get a db on windows (though
    I haven't actually tested to verify that it works on windows).

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