ZODB, the Zope Object Database, is a fully-fledged object database system written in Python. It forms part of the Zope application framework by Zope Corporation (previously Digital Creations). (See port www/zope.) This port represents a third-party standalone packaging of ZODB by noted Python developer A.M. Kuchlin (AMK). Official ZODB development is currently being managed by Pythonlabs, a division of Zope Corporation. AMK's release of ZODB (and hence this port) will eventually be superseded by an official Pythonlabs release called StandaloneZODB. AMK's ZODB package also includes a standalone version of Zope Enterprise Objects (ZEO), a tool to distribute ZODB stores across a network. This port does NOT install ZEO. A separate port, databases/zeo, is currently under development. WWW: http://amk.ca/zodb/ See also: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/StandaloneZODB -- Johann Visagie