Hi Tino!
sorry, I forgot to answer to your previous mail.
On 08.08.05, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
I still wonder why we cannot just use ZODB here. it is fully integreated with python, you can use it like BSDDB but more reliable - unlike it you can have it read only and also use it over a network, clustered and so on. (Fallback servers via ZEO or load balancing if you really need the power). This would be the self-contained part as requested above.
Some time ago, I had a look in how much work it would be to switch to the ZODB. The problem at that time was that ZCatalog, which is also needed, was not being distributed separately from Zope. I don't know wheter this is still the case.
MySQL is just too ugly of a database. If a daemon based rdbms I'd go for postgres.
Probably you could write an SQL backend in such a way that it works for SQLite, MySQL and PostreSQL at the same time, so this should not be a major issue.
Jörg