On 11/9/99 11:54 AM, Karl Fast at karl.fast@pobox.com 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?
It's unsupported by Digital Creations. We've been looking for a keeper for a while, someone who is interested in the time required to keep it in sync. We are driven by what our customers use, and that's largely Oracle and Sybase (with DB2 coming).
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.
Or am I totally out to lunch here.
Not totally, but simply nibbling on a tea sandwich :-) The reason it's not popular with *us* is the transaction support, which is critical to the kind of mission-sensitive revenue-stream applications we do for our customers. Once it has transaction support, we can re-evaluate that, but for now it's verbotten for serious projects around here. It's just a data integrity issue. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli Python Powered Digital Creations, Inc. | petrilli@digicool.com http://www.digicool.com