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Diffstat (limited to 'MySQLdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | MySQLdb/README | 80 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | MySQLdb/setup.py | 35 |
2 files changed, 72 insertions, 43 deletions
diff --git a/MySQLdb/README b/MySQLdb/README index 23e2b2a..5b46784 100644 --- a/MySQLdb/README +++ b/MySQLdb/README @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Prerequisites: * Versions lower than 1.5.2 WON'T WORK. * All versions from 1.5.2 should work. 1.6.x versions have not been - tested. 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 have both been tested. 2.0.x has not been - recently tested. + tested. 2.1.3 and 2.2.3 have both been tested. 2.0.x has not been + recently tested. 2.3 (alpha) support is coming summer 2003. * Red Hat Linux: @@ -51,16 +51,21 @@ Prerequisites: * Versions lower than 3.22.19 might not work. - * MySQL-4.0 is supported. Current release 4.0.2 alpha. + * MySQL-4.1 is not yet supported, but should be by summer 2003. + Current release 4.1.0 (alpha). + + * MySQL-4.0 is supported. Current release 4.0.12. - * MySQL-3.23 is supported. Current release: 3.23.51. + * MySQL-3.23 is supported. Current release: 3.23.56. * MySQL-3.22 is deprecated in favor of 3.23, but still supported. * Red Hat Linux packages: + o XXX May be out of date for Red Hat 8.0 and newer + o mysql-devel to compile; doesn't seem to come with the - thread-safe client library + thread-safe client library o mysql and/or mysql-devel to run @@ -76,6 +81,10 @@ Prerequisites: * I prefer the MySQL.com packages to the Red Hat packages. + * Transactions (particularly InnoDB tables) are supported for + MySQL-3.23 and up. You may need a special package from your + vendor with this support turned on. + zlib @@ -85,7 +94,7 @@ Prerequisites: o zlib-devel to compile - * zlib to run + o zlib to run A C COMPILER!!! @@ -111,15 +120,31 @@ Building and installing remove the parameters that are complained about. Upgrading distutils is the smart way to go. - Note that recent binary distributions from mysql.com include two - sets of client libraries: mysqlclient and mysqlclient_r. The latter - are the "thread-safe" libraries, so use those if you can, and if - threading is important to you. By default, thread-safe libraries are - used. You can find out what you actually have by using the - _mysql.thread_safe_client() function (returns boolean). Strangely, - it appears that the thread-safe library is only available as a - shared library. + Depending on which version of MySQL you have, you may have the + option of using three different client libraries: + mysqlclient -- mostly but not guaranteed thread-safe + + mysqlclient_r -- thread-safe, use if you can + + mysqld -- embedded server + + mysqlclient is used by default. To use one of the others, set + the environment variable mysqlclient to the name of the library + you want to use. + + There are several active versions of MySQL out there, and this + makes it a little tricky to configure setup.py automatically and + still be cross-platform. setup.py assumes you are using version + 3.23.32. To specify a different version, set the environment + variable mysqlversion. + + If your MySQL is compiled with certain options, you may need to + add some more libraries to the link. In particular, with 4.0 and + up, if MySQL was configured to use SSL, you need to link against + crypto and ssl. You can do this by setting the environment + variable mysqloptlibs a space-separated list of libraries. + If you have the dynamic client libraries (on Linux, .so vs. .a), those will be used by default. If they are not on your standard loader path, you will have to set or adjust the LD_LIBRARY_PATH @@ -133,8 +158,11 @@ Building and installing Finally, putting it together: - $ tar xfz MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz - $ cd MySQL-python-0.9.2 + $ tar xfz MySQL-python-0.9.3.tar.gz + $ cd MySQL-python-0.9.3 + $ export mysqlversion="4.0.12" + $ export mysqlclient="mysqlclient_r" + $ export mysqloptlibs="ssl crypto" $ python setup.py build $ su # python setup.py install @@ -142,7 +170,9 @@ Building and installing Windows - I don't do Windows. + I don't do Windows. However if someone provides me with a package + for Windows, I'll make it available. Don't ask me for help with + Windows because I can't help you. Zope @@ -176,12 +206,22 @@ Building and installing MySQL-python is pre-packaged in Red Hat Linux 7.x and newer. - Debian + Debian GNU/Linux Packaged as python-mysql. - http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages + http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages + + Gentoo Linux + + It's in the portage tree. + + # emerge sync + # emerge mysql-python + # emerge zmysqlda # if you use Zope + Note that zmysqlda will pull in mysql-python-py2.1 automatically + as Zope still officially requires Python-2.1.3. *BSD @@ -202,4 +242,4 @@ License Andy Dustman <andy@dustman.net> - 2002-07-10 + 2003-04-19 diff --git a/MySQLdb/setup.py b/MySQLdb/setup.py index 0e144ef..e7586b9 100644 --- a/MySQLdb/setup.py +++ b/MySQLdb/setup.py @@ -10,29 +10,16 @@ import string YES = 1 NO = 0 -# set this to YES to use the special thread-safe mysqlclient_r library -# Note that since MySQL 4.0, it appears the normal library is -# thread-safe by default, so you can leave this set as NO. -# If building an embedded server, this option is ignored. -thread_safe_library = NO - -# set this to YES if you want an embedded server version -embedded_server = NO - -# You probably don't have to do anything past this point. If you -# do, please mail me the configuration for your platform. Don't -# forget to include the value of sys.platform and os.name. +mysqlclient = os.getenv('mysqlclient', 'mysqlclient') +mysqlversion = tuple(map(int, string.split(os.getenv('mysqlversion', '3.23.32'), '.'))) +mysqloptlibs = string.split(os.getenv('mysqloptlibs', '')) +embedded_server = (mysqlclient == 'mysqld') name = "MySQL-%s" % os.path.basename(sys.executable) if embedded_server: name = name + "-embedded" version = "0.9.3" -if embedded_server: - mysqlclient = "mysqld" -else: - mysqlclient = thread_safe_library and "mysqlclient_r" or "mysqlclient" - # include files and library locations should cover most platforms include_dirs = [ '/usr/include/mysql', '/usr/local/include/mysql', @@ -43,9 +30,12 @@ library_dirs = [ '/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql' ] +libraries = [mysqlclient] + mysqloptlibs + # MySQL-3.23 and newer need libz -libraries = [mysqlclient, "z"] -if embedded_server: +if mysqlversion > (3,23,0): + libraries.append("z") +if mysqlversion > (4,0,0): libraries.append("crypt") # On some platorms, this can be used to find the shared libraries @@ -74,8 +64,7 @@ elif sys.platform == "sunos5": # Solaris 2.8 + gcc elif sys.platform == "win32": # Ugh include_dirs = [r'c:\mysql\include'] library_dirs = [r'c:\mysql\lib\opt'] - libraries = [mysqlclient, 'zlib', 'msvcrt', 'libcmt', - 'wsock32', 'advapi32'] + libraries.extend(['zlib', 'msvcrt', 'libcmt', 'wsock32', 'advapi32']) extra_objects = [r'c:\mysql\lib\opt\mysqlclient.lib'] elif sys.platform == "cygwin": include_dirs = ['/c/mysql/include'] @@ -94,7 +83,7 @@ else: (sys.platform, os.name) long_description = \ -"""Python interface to MySQL-3.23 +"""Python interface to MySQL MySQLdb is an interface to the popular MySQL database server for Python. The design goals are: @@ -102,7 +91,7 @@ The design goals are: - Compliance with Python database API version 2.0 - Thread-safety - Thread-friendliness (threads will not block each other) -- Compatibility with MySQL-3.23 and later +- Compatibility with MySQL-3.22 and later This module should be mostly compatible with an older interface written by Joe Skinner and others. However, the older version is |