On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:18 PM, john2095 <john...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
IMHO who you really need to ask and whine to is with the providers of the packaging of mysqldb and MySQL in your platform. It is really nasty that in 2012 you need to install the binaries of a database server to be able to install the client-side drivers of a programming language. This is a problem solved decades ago. -- Ramiro Morales -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
