Re: [Gnumed-devel] Gnumed on Windows: the pain of pyPgSQL

[Tim Churches]

address@hidden wrote:

> Trying to run gnumed on the machine at work using python 2.4
> pyPgSQL has no windows binaries for 2.4, the binary for 2.3 crashes
> out.
>
>  
Gerhard Haering was providing Win32 binaries for Python 2.4 from his own 
Web site at haering.de - but that seems to be down. Why not from 
SourceForge I don't know.

> Of course I can compile from scratch, but if we have spend time maintaining our
> own python-postgres adaptor (and pyPgSQL tooks pretty abandoned) 
> then I'd prefer to support something better.
>  
Both Billie Allie and Gerhard Haering have been accepting and 
(eventually) applying patches to pyPgSQL in the SourceForge CVS version 
up to a few months ago - maybe no more patches have been needed since 
then. However they have not created a new tarball based on the bug-fixed 
version in CVS, so we had to create one for ourselves for use in NetEpi. 
No big deal, but no help for Windows.

> Is there a different adaptor we can use on windows?
> Or should I have a another bash at my pure-python adaptor (as this is easier 
> to support)
>  
We looked at the other Python-PostgreSQL adaptors about 18 months ago, 
and none of them had *any* unit tests. Not one. For a critical bit of 
plumbing like a database adaptor, you really can't have too many tests. 
PyPgSQL has quite a few, at least.

Tim C