On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Karl Fast wrote:
wow...I feel a whole lot better about myself after reading that Jon Udell had difficulties linking Zope to MySQL on Linux ;) His experience sounds a lot like mine, except I was eventually able to get it working. yay !
So just what is the state of MySQL and Zope?
I know from lurking on the lists that MySQL's lack of transaction support doesn't make it very popular with some people, but one heck of a lot of people swear by it. I know more people who use MySQL than use PostgreSQL. Lack of strong MySQL support in Zope is a definite weak spot IMHO.
Zope's architecture requires a proper transactional RDBMS - the weak spot is MySQL's lack of a transaction mechanism. MySQL is simply not yet good enough to integrate with Zope. My gut feeling is that the people who are capable of helping the MySQLDA project arn't going to, as they realize that it is pointless to create what would be fundamentally broken and will instead wait until MySQL is ready. Or arn't using MySQL at all as they understand its limitations and databases are important enough to them that they actually want to maintain data integrity. - Zen, who is sick of staff wanting to develop databases in Access because they equate 'good' with 'popular' and is probably drawing unfair parallels in his head with MySQL and generally being unfair and grumpy. humph. ___ // Zen (alias Stuart Bishop) Work: zen@cs.rmit.edu.au // E N Senior Systems Alchemist Play: zen@shangri-la.dropbear.id.au //__ Computer Science, RMIT WWW: http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zen