MySQLdb binaries (was Re: huge amounts of pure...)

[John J. Lee]

Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> writes:

> skip at pobox.com wrote:
> >     John> MySQLdb isn't fully supported for Python 2.5 yet, and there's no
> >     John> tested Windows executable available, although there's an untested
> >     John> version from a World of Warcraft guild available.
> > As Andy Dustman has pointed out a number of times, he doesn't do
> > Windows.
> > Someone in the MySQLdb community who does use Windows is going to have to
> > fill that void.
> ......
> 
> well I have managed to build both extant versions
> (MySQL-python-1.2.1_p2 & MySQL-python-1.2.2b2) from source with the
> aid of Mr Dustman's comments in the site.cfg files and a very minor
> hack to the earlier version. I had to have the sources for Mysql
> available as well, but that probably comes with the territory. It
> seems the very latest version won't play well with earlier MySQL so I
> used MySQL-python-1.2.1_p2 as we are still using some 4.0.27 databases.
> 
> Given that I used a particular version of MySQL, 5.0.33, to build
> against I'm not certain that my builds are useful for everyone. I copy
> here the differences I had to make to the source to get stuff to build
> and run against stock win32 Python-2.5
[...]

Robin may be right, but the resulting binaries are here (not
supported, use at your own risk):

http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/MySQLdb-1.1.2b2-win32-py25.zip

or

ftp://www.reportlab.org/MySQLdb-1.1.2b2-win32-py25.zip


John