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 Installing Roundup
 ==================
 
-:Version: $Revision: 1.37 $
+:Version: $Revision: 1.38 $
 
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   This uses the SQLite_ embedded RDBMS to provide a fast, scaleable backend.
   There are no limitations, and it's much faster and more scaleable than the
   dbm backends.
+**mysql**
+  Backend for popular RDBMS MySQL. This backend uses MySQL's Berkeley DB
+  (transaction safe) table format, so with small amount of data it may be a
+  bit slower than *dbm backends (due to mysql layer's overhead). However with
+  lots of data mysql may perform better (due to query optimisation). No actual
+  serious benchmarks were made though. For more info on installation of this
+  backend see doc/mysql.txt. 
 **metakit**
   This backend is implemented over the metakit_ storage system, using Mk4Py as
   the interface. It scales much better than the dbm backends.