Hi all, I am new to Zope and I am attempting to use both Zope and Python for the first time. So, please excuse my ignorance. I hope to get an E-Commerce (or should I say Z-Commerce) site up soon. I was very interested in using the SQLSession object from the contribution download area. After downloading and untaring into the Zope directory (I am using RedHat so that is /usr/share/zope), all seem to go well. However, I did not find any instructions for getting the Zope Product to appear in my Zope Control Panel list. I therefore assumed that I needed to compile the code using the python compiler I had previously installed (version 1.5.2?; Zope 2.0.1 works so I assume it was 1.5.2). I looked through all of the Zope documentation I could find but I could not find how to compile Zope Products. I had previously installed the Postgresql product (which I compiled using python) and it worked flawlessly. To compile SQLSession, I used the commandline: python SQLSession.py I got a compiler error stating that it could not import Persistent from Persistence. I looked in the file /usr/share/zope/lib/python/Persistence.py and I did not find any methods. I had setup my python environment variables as: PYTHONPATH=".:/usr/share/zope/lib/python:/usr/lib/python1.5" PYTHONHOME="/usr/lib/python1.5" As I also did not find any documentation on setting up python to compile Zope objects. I just winged the above variables ;^). I have been accused of being blind in the past so I am sure that all of the documentation that I said I could not find exist somewhere. Anyway, I am now under the assumption that there is more to the compilation process than I have hacked together. Your help would be greatly appreciated. By the way, I do plan to display the Zope icon at the bottom of my pages. I think Zope is a great find. I researched several commerical and non-commerical products before deciding on Zope. I just wish a tutorial exist that walked a newbie (like myself) through all the steps to setup a simple site. I am still puzzled by by how to allow users other than "superuser" to log in. I learn more by example than by reading (as you can probably tell by my inability to locate the documentation I need). I liked the example (I can not remember the author or title, sorry) that went beyond Zen's tutorial and created a Hello World! product. However, I think it would be even better if a section was added on the compilation process for us poor souls just starting out. Thanks again! Clayton.