[Zope] MySQL and Zope

[Jose de Leon]

How can I contribute to ZMySQLda?  I am currently a Senior Programmer
Analyst, and I have some free time...

I use MySQL almost exclusively and now that I have found Zope, a fantastic
tool!, I just want to code with Zope and MySQL together.  I'm currently not
happy with existing Python-MySQL interface, so I'm on a mission to design my
own for two reasons: 1) Understand Python better (I'm new to Python due to
Zope, I wish I had found Python before Perl),  2) Make a better interface.


BTW, The MySQL developers will be adding transaction support.  It would be
nice to be ready for that than to have to catch up.  If you look at their
current TODO list, Transactions is #2 on the "Near Future"  In general,
their near futures have been quite near.  :-)


Sincerely,
Jose de Leon


----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@digicool.com>
To: Phil Harris <phil@wigwamweb.net>; <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>; Jose
de Leon <jadiel@thevision.net>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope] MySQL and Zope


On 10/29/99 4:44 PM, Phil  Harris at phil@wigwamweb.net wrote:

> Gregor,
>
> IIRC ZMySQLda is no longer 'supported' as it is not thread safe, that said
I
> use it in a multi thread environment and it seems OK for simple
selections.

Actually, it has less to do with threading (which we could have fixed) and
more to do with the total lack of transactional symantics in MySQL. This is
a huge flaw from our perspective, though other people may be willing to
accept the risks.  Additionally, we have no customers using it, so no
resources dedicated to keeping it up.  We've been looking for someone in the
community to take it over and champion it.

Chris
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