[Tutor] Gadfly... missing?

[dman]

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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