Hi, Mike Bayer wrote: > It is not feasible to use MySQLclient in Python 2 because it uses the > same module name as Python-MySQL, and would wreak havoc with distro > packaging and many other things.
IMO mysqlclient is just the new upstream for MySQL-Python, since MySQL-Python is no more maintained. Why Linux distributions would not package mysqlclient if it provides Python 3 support, contains bugfixes and more features? It's quite common to have two packages in conflicts beceause they provide the same function, same library, same program, etc. I would even suggest packagers to use mysqlclient as the new source without modifying their package. > It is also imprudent to switch > production openstack applications to a driver that is new and untested > (even though it is a port), nor is it necessary. Why do you consider that mysqlclient is not tested or less tested than mysql-python? Which kind of regression do you expect in mysqlclient? As mysql-python, mysqlclient Github project is connected to Travis: https://travis-ci.org/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python (tests pass) I trust more a project which is actively developed. > There should be no > reason Openstack applications are hardcoded to one database driver. > The approach should be simply that in Python 3, the mysqlclient library > is installed instead of mysql-python. Technically, it's now possible to have different dependencies on Python 2 and Python 3. But in practice, there are some annoying corner cases. It's more convinient to have same dependencies on Python 2 and Python 3. Using mysqlclient on Python 2 and Python 3 would avoid to have bugs specific to Python 2 (bugs already fixed in mysqlclient) and new features only available on Python 3. Victor __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
