#10936: Detailed instructions for getting Django and MySQL and MySQLdb working
on
various OS X versions
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Reporter: simon | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Documentation | Version: SVN
Resolution: | Keywords: mysqldb
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by sampablokuper):
Replying to [comment:7 adamnelson]:
> Anyway, at least a strong statement on the wiki telling people that,
unlike PHP/Perl (where most future Django people will be coming from, i.e.
the audience for this wiki page), that Sqlite3 really is the way to go for
desktop development.
>
> Not one person I've introduced to Django knew that on their own. Each
one struggled to install MySQL and MySQLdb on their Mac (since that's
about what they would have done for PHP) before I told them it's a waste
of time and they should just use Sqlite3 which works by default.
>
> That isn't clear from the docs and I'm confident that many people are
trying in vain to install MySQL and associated libraries for only minimal
benefit.
+1
I'm one of those people, and I've just been spending a fair chunk of my
afternoon setting up MySQLdb on a Mac. Previously, I've only done Django
development on Windows, where MySQLdb is much more straightforward to set
up. Since my production environment uses MySQL, I prefer to use it for my
development environment too, both so that I can feel more confident about
deployment, and so that I don't *have* to get to know another SQL RDBMS
(e.g. Sqlite3).
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