[egenix-users] Installing mxODBC outside Zope instance

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Igor Elbert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Our Zope installation procedure requires that we install Zope into a
> standard location and than install ours and third-party products and libs
> into another directory. We have no problems doing that with Oracle and other
> ODBC adapters but with mxODBC we are getting the following error:

This is a known problem in mxODBC Zope DA 1.0.8 which will be
fixed in the next patch level release. Until then, the work-around
you used will work just fine.

The problem is that the paths for the PDF documentation are hard-coded
into the Zope DA product. As a result, installing the Zope DA to
an instance directory causes the traceback you are seeing.

> 2004-10-08T15:30:42 PANIC(300) z2 Startup exception
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File z2.py, line 2, in ?
>   File C:\Program Files\Zope/lib/python\Zope\__init__.py, line 38, in
> startup
>     (Object: startup)
>   File C:\Program Files\Zope/lib/python\Zope\App\startup.py, line 38, in
> startup
>   File C:\Program Files\Zope/lib/python\OFS\Application.py, line 485, in
> import_products
>   File C:\Program Files\Zope/lib/python\OFS\Application.py, line 502, in
> import_product
>   File Products\mxODBCZopeDA\__init__.py, line 6, in ?
>   File Products\mxODBCZopeDA\ZopeDA.py, line 9, in ?
>     (Object: DatabaseConnectionPool)
>   File C:\Program Files\Zope/lib/python\App\ImageFile.py, line 30, in
> __init__
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Program
> Files\\Zope\\lib\\python\\Products/mxODBCZopeDA/mxODBC.pdf'
> 
> If I create directory Products/mxODBCZopeDA inside the standard Zope
> installation and put the pdf files there mxODBC works just fine except for
> the warning:
> """
> After loading Product 'mxODBCZopeDA' from 'C:\\tracker\\Zope\\Products',
> I skipped the one in 'C:\\Program Files\\Zope/lib/python\\Products'.
> """
> 
> Windows XP Pro, Zope 2.6.2 (binary release, python 2.1, win32-x86), python
> 2.1.3, win32
> 
> Please advise.
> 
> Thanks,
> Igor
> 
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