I've just been through a slice of hell simply because I did not want to 
install mysql-server on my (osx) django development machine - my app 
connects to a remote mysql database.  It turns out that python's "mysqldb" 
depends on mysql binaries which are only packaged up with the server 
release.  This means that if you want to run django and connect to a remote 
mysql you still need to install mysqlserver locally.  I think that 
blows. Especially when there is a purely python mysql driver in 
"mysql-connector".

Has this happened by default or by design?  Is mysqldb really that much 
faster, or featureful, or just because it's more common?

Is anyone working on a pure python solution (mysql-connector) database 
backend? Is there one already?

thanks.

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