Changes between Version 72 and Version 73 of MySqlDb

Timestamp:

Jan 6, 2016, 12:58:34 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

Christian Boos

Comment:

#MySQLdb: update install information on Windows

MySqlDb

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 The following MySQL dropin replacements are also known to work:
- * The [http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB MariaDB] variant: tested MariaDB 5.3.3, MySQLdb 1.2.3 and Trac 0.12.3.
- * The [http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/ps-5.6 Percona] variant: tested Percona 5.6 with Trac 1.1.4.
+ * The [http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/MariaDB MariaDB] variant: 
+    - tested MariaDB 5.3.3, MySQLdb 1.2.3 and Trac 0.12.3
+    - tested MariaDB 10.1.10 (x64), MySQLdb 1.2.5 and Trac 1.0.10dev, 1.2dev
+ * The [http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/ps-5.6 Percona] variant:
+    - tested Percona 5.6 with Trac 1.1.4
 
 In order to avoid Unicode and international characters problems in Trac, eg international characters turning into question marks with mysterious **"Incorrect string value"** errors logged, the Trac database '''must''' be configured  with the `utf8` character set and the `utf8_bin` collation type.
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 The recommended version is [pypi:MySQL-python MySQL-python 1.2.2+], which must be compiled in ''thread-safe client'' mode. Earlier versions are known to be problematic.
 
-[pypi:MySQL-python MySQL-python] contains links to the `.tar.gz` source distribution as well as pre-built Windows eggs, but for Python 2.7 only. Python 2.6 binaries for windows can be found [http://www.codegood.com/archives/4 here], unofficial site.
+The [pypi:MySQL-python MySQL-python] page on PyPI contains links to the `.tar.gz` source distribution.
+
+For Windows, there are several possibilities:
+ - the PyPI page mentioned above also links to pre-built Windows eggs, but for Python 2.7 32-bits only. 
+ - Python binaries (32-bits and 64-bits) can be found at codegood.com [http://www.codegood.com/archives/4 for Python 2.6] and [http://www.codegood.com/archives/129 for Python 2.7]; however they have been last updated in 2010, so it only proposes version 1.2.3, which should however work fine
+ - recent Python 2.7 wheels (32-bits and 64-bits) can be found in the [http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages], kindly provided by Christoph Gohlke, Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.
+ - if you are using ActiveState Python 2.6 on Windows, you can install with `pypm install mysql-python`
+ - last but not least, the [http://conda.pydata.org/docs/ Conda] project also contains recent versions of this package and it's handy for use by continuous integration systems as the package can be installed non-interactively using a simple `conda install -qy mysql-python` command (32-bits and 64-bits)
 
 On FreeBSD this package is called {{{py-MySQLdb}}} in [http://www.freshports.org/databases/py-MySQLdb55/ the ports collection].
 
-If you are using ActiveState Python 2.6 on Windows, you can install with {{{pypm install mysql-python}}}.
 
 ==== Thread-safety is important