At 16:36 21/09/01, you wrote:
Is it really not possible to include the MySQLDA with the main Zope distribution ?
Can you answer the above question ?
All of the DAs for zope require linking with libraries supplied buy the RDBMS vendor. There is generally a liscence restriction preventing ZC from including those libraries with zope.
Sorry I don't understand - when you say linking do you mean at compile time or run time. If compile time then presumably the people providing binary DAs are themselves in breach of licences - if at run-time then what's the problem ? If I haven't the licences on my system then the DA won't run. Is this why MySQL-python needs to be compiled at my end - because otherwise the author would breach licences ? If that is the case then I can understand why it has to be done this way. Regards Richard Richard Moon richard@dcs.co.uk