@Massimo Yes it worked! BTW I used forward slashes in the path (just because it seems to work and is easier to type).
I can now work from a USB stick and deploy in seconds to a full Firebird client/server database; how cool is that! Thanks for all your help. David On Sep 7, 3:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > In trunk try > > DAL('firebird_embedded://sysdba:master...@k:\\web2py\\fembed.fdb') > > On Sep 4, 5:24 am, villas <villa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > change by > > > con = kinterbasdb.connect(host='', database=r'k:\web2py > > > \fbembed.fdb',user='sysdba', password='masterkey') > > > José, > > You rock man! I never tried the little 'r'. So maybe now there is a > > way! > > > I didn't play around with it so much yet, but I suppose the web2py > > regex which checks the firebird connect string needs some tickering. > > > Perhaps better still, maybe web2py could have another DAL connect > > type, e.g. 'firebirdembed'. I guess this would be easy to implement > > and maintain. In some ways it would be better to completely separate > > this connection because it would have significantly different > > characteristics and usage (single-user, no security etc). What do > > you think? > > D --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---