[Zope] Connecting a Zope-Server to a MySQL-Server

[Horst Wald]

Hi!

I'm trying to get a Zope-Server to work with a remote MySQL-Server (both 
Suse-Linux, but I could use Windows2000 as a Zope Server if necessary) - and 
that seems to be a hell of a problem. Until now everything went fairly easy, 
but now I seem to have to:

- install Python 1.5 or greater first (how do I do that?)
- ensure that I have MySQL installed on your machine, INCLUDING THE
  FILES AND LIBRARIES NECESSARY TO DEVELOP MySQL APPLICATIONS (but I
  don't know what these F&L's are and I need the MySQL-Server on a
  remote machine)
- build Zope from source
- download and install MySQLdb, a newer driver to MySQL than the one
  that comes with ZMySQLDA
- patch ZMySQLDA: copy ZMySQLDA.patch to the top-level zope dir and then
  patch -p1 <ZMySQLDA.patch it (what does that mean?)

Isn't there an easier way?

Confused

Horst
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