Having read a bit, I concluded the open source DBMS to use with Zope was mySQL. Easier said than done under win32, I've discovered.

You're right, installing ZMySQLDA under windows is really difficult. I got it thanks to a doc I found I don't know where (maybe Derek sent it to me), but here you are. Igor Leturia Here's a document that says how I got it working. It would be nice if this could be turned into a "Howto" on the Zope.org website, but I don't have an account there. --Derek ------------------------- Ever try to get a MySQL server and Zope running under MS-Windows? Here's what I had to do. And no, I didn't find this documented anywhere. This was a bit challenging as I haven't really used MS-Windows for anything other than gaming in about 5 years. 1. Install and start Zope 2. Install and start MySQL server (I'm using mysqld-opt.exe) 3. Install ZMySQLDA (*) You need a Windows program that can handle tarballs, as ZMySQLDA, like most Zope "Products", is not distributed as a .zip file 4. Restart Zope 5. Notice that the ZMySQLDA Product is showing as "broken" in the Zope Control Panel, because you are missing the MySQL-python interface library (distributed separately) 6. Try to install MySQL-python (filename "MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py2.1.exe") (*) This will fail, because the Windows installer program will only unpack the files if it can find a "Python Installation" directory to unpack it into. There is no way to specify your Zope Python install as it will only let you choose a Python install that is finds in the registry (I *think*). I.e., you fscking NEED Python to get access to the files. A .zip file was not available for download. 7. Download and install the win32 Python 2.1.2 (to match your Zope 2.5.0's Python) 8. Now install MySQL-python (it should work this time) 9. Restart Zope, and notice that the ZMySQLDA Product is broken, because it is not finding the MySQL-python interface library 10. At this point, you'll need to either (a) have payed attention to the directories the Windows Installers used, or (b) go surfing around your hard drive until you find where Zope, Python, and MySQL-python were placed. For me it was (b). 11. Identify the files needed for MySQL-python. Since MS-Window's package management system doesn't provide an "rpm -ql" equivalent, I guessed this to be C:\Python21\ _mysql.pyd _mysql_exceptions.py _mysql_exceptions.pyc _mysql_exceptions.pyo MySQLdb/ [dir with all contents] ...then I copied those files into the directory C:\Program Files\Demo\lib\python That "Demo" is the name of the directory Zope was installed into. 12. Restart Zope. Is is working? Seems to be... I can talk to the database from Zope. It is correct and stable? Fsck if I know. --Derek