MySQL Windows Driver Updates
Have Zope MySQL database drivers (ZMySQLDA and DB) and ODBC (ZODBCDA) development been abandoned for the Windows platform? Most of what I can find is very out of date (no longer works with the current release), experimental (with major problems), or commercial. My need is to hook Zope 2.7.4 up to MySQL 4.0.16. on a W2K server. My preference would be the native driver. At this point, it looks like the eGenix commercial solution may be ony viable option, and I really have no idea how good it is. If anyone has gotten this MySQLDA mess working in such an environment, I would be grateful to know how you did it. Harlow Pinson Indepth Learning Email: hpinson@indepthl.com Web: http://www.indepthl.com Voice: 505-994-2135 FAX: 208-475-7678
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:00:43 -0700, hpinson@indepthl.com <hpinson@indepthl.com> wrote:
Have Zope MySQL database drivers (ZMySQLDA and DB) and ODBC (ZODBCDA) development been abandoned for the Windows platform?
Speaking for ZMySQLDA, there have been no new releases for more than two years because there's been no need to release anything: It works. There's never been any development for the WIndows platform because it's cross-platform, and there's nothing platform-specific in ZMySQLDA. There is one prerequisite for installing ZMySQLDA, and that is installing MySQLdb. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python Availability of pre-compiled Windows packages depends entirely upon end-users who have the tool chain to build them. So far there is not an installer for 1.0.1. However, 1.0 or even 0.9.2 should be fine for Zope; most of the changes are in the Python layer which is not used by Zope. -- Computer interfaces should never be made of meat. Using GMail? Setting Reply-to address to <> disables this annoying feature.
hpinson@indepthl.com wrote:
My need is to hook Zope 2.7.4 up to MySQL 4.0.16. on a W2K server. My preference would be the native driver. At this point, it looks like the eGenix commercial solution may be ony viable option, and I really have no idea how good it is.
The eGenix driver is very good. The support for it is even better. That said, what Andy says about the MySQL native drivers is true... Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk
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