Our options are to get Oracle to release it to pypi properly. This may seem like a weird thing to hardline on, but because of how pip and pypi work, including mirroring protocols, combined with the volume of tests we run, it's an actual not theoretical issue.
I'll ping Geert at Oracle again and see who we need to convince.
On Jul 11, 2014 11:17 PM, Angus Lees <[email protected]> wrote:
Yep, mysql-connector-python is GPL (v2 afaict).I just need a way to get it installed on the test machines, and I'm hoping we aren't going to founder on such a technically-trivial step. What are our options here?On 12 July 2014 15:43, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:No. Same license.
On Jul 11, 2014 10:23 PM, Robert Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Won't the licence be a problem?
>>> Given that mysql-connector is shipped by the official mysql devs (ie: Oracle), I'm not much looking forward to convincing Oracle to ship their software through another repo. How important is this? Do we have other avenues available to us?
> On 12 Jul 2014 05:59, "Angus Lees" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I'd like to switch to using mysqlconnector rather than mysqldb as our default mysql/sqlalchemy driver. The discussions behind this are underway on os-dev and other avenues.
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>> My question here is regarding the simple mechanics of getting mysql-connector installed on the test machines. I don't know much about how these are set up, but I gather it's an issue that mysql-connector is an external pypi library.
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