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List:       mythtv-dev
Subject:    Re: [mythtv] MySQL issue with Python binding
From:       Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-11-11 14:52:58
Message-ID: CAMfXtQy4ta+XwPgX+fB9qCcWJs7YCp5bRHKg+aVJYwPsJSDyMg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean@thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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> which is at version 1.3.7.  Therefore, I think they are using mysqlclient,
> even if they're calling it MySQL-python.

Correct.  Around May of this year the maintainer in Fedora moved
the upstream source.  mysqlclient was stated to be "mostly compatible"
with MySQL-python (but obviously not in all cases).  There are
advantages of mysqlclient to MySQL-python (thread safety,
python 3 support, etc.) but the "mostly compatible" does not mean
fully compatible, obviously.  I suspect the impending move to Python
3 by default in Fedora was the driver for the change (but I am not
willing to do the research to validate that suspicion)

I would have (likely) created the package with the name mysqlclient
with an obsoletes specification for MySQL-python so it would have
been clearer what happened here, but I am not the decider.

In any case, someone will indeed need to do the testing across the
various implementations.  Likely someone motivated to resolve
the issue.
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