Steven Holt wrote:
> I guess the one thing I did not get answered is the play nice aspect.  
> Perhaps it was so obvious to those presently working with these systems 
> that it didn't seem to need an answer.  Are zope data objects easily 
> accessible from dabo if you are sitting at the server or if you have 
> downloaded the data objects via ftp?   Or if you use xope it only really 
> makes sense to play with the data within zope.

Dabo doesn't know how to interact with ZODB. While we may be able to 
provide a wrapper for it in the future, it would be of limited 
usefulness since Dabo is for relational (sql-like) databases and ZODB is 
an object database.

That said, you could still access your ZODB from within a Dabo 
application using Python, it is just that Dabo doesn't provide any 
wrapper for it and you wouldn't be able to put a dBizobj in front of it. 
A ZODB is basically a honking persistent Python dict, and you don't need 
to be within the Zope web interface to access it.

You are putting accounting and financial data in a ZODB? Any reason why 
you aren't using a relational database such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, 
Firebird, Oracle, MS-SQL, etc.? ZODB can be useful and convenient for 
some things, but trying to make an object database relational can be 
quite hairy...

Anyway, the simple answer is that Dabo isn't for object databases.

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pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com


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