[Rdo-list] Migrating from MySQL-python to PyMySQL

[Haïkel]

2015-10-01 18:24 GMT+02:00 Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com>:
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> WAT? Are they API compatible? I don’t believe so. So providing the old package is neat but actually wrong. Or am I missing something?
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> Ihar

Ok, the same people are maintaining two drivers:
* mysqlclient (which is what is currently packaged) and is a drop-in
replacement to MySQL-python
* pymysql which is API compatible but not a drop-in replacement (which
is named after the project hence the confusion)

I think that oslo.db should come with some drivers pre-installed and
it should be mysqlclient that comes by default not to break upgrades.
Then, installers should handle that.

Regards,
H,