[ZODB-Dev] Zope - MySQL database adapter for Windows XP

[Horak, Karl]

I've just spent a very frustrating couple of days trying to get Zope
2.7.0-b3 to see a MySQL database or its ODBC connection on a Windows XP box.
I'm running Python 2.3.1.  

ZMySQLDA looked promising as did ZODBCDA but that seems to require Python
2.1.1 and when I uninstalled 2.3 and downgraded to 2.1, the missing
python21.dll problem still stopped me.  These seem to be out-of-date
packages that aren't compatible with the modules in Py 2.3.  

MySQL-python.exe-0.9.2.win32-py2.3 might let me build my own adapter but I
have no idea how to go about that.  MyODBC-3.51.06 again seems to be part of
the solution but I don't have any documentation at Zope as to how I might
turn this into an adapter.  

Basically, I'm looking for an up-to-date database adapter for MySQL that
really works with Python 2.3.1 and Zope 2.7.0 without a bunch of
jury-rigging.  Does such a thing exist and, if so, how is it actually
installed so that Zope sees it?