Collin, it's also not hard to install MySQL 5.6 from Oracle on Ubuntu 14.04 ;)
Tim, the commit to clean up MySQL 5.5 isn't very big, especially if you put back in the supports_microsecond_precision code. I'm not sure dropping it "prematurely" is that helpful, considering that GIS is rarely used most people won't notice breakage. That said I'm not using Oracle MySQL that much, so I can't comment on 5.5 prevalence; in fact I work mostly with MariaDB these days. On 30 August 2017 at 23:01, Collin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > As a datapoint for MySQL, Most of my websites are on Ubuntu 16.04 (Python > 3.5, MySQL 5.7), though I do have one on 14.04 (Python 3.4, MySQL 5.5) that > I _would_ upgrade to Django 2.0 if we kept 5.5 support, but it's not a big > deal to leave it at 1.11 until I switch to 16.04. > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Tim Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MySQL 5.5 is end-of-life in December 2018. Usually we drop support for a >> particular database version in the Django release prior to the end-of-life >> date [0], so that would mean dropping support in Django 2.1 (released >> August 2018). We don't have MySQL 5.5 testing in our continuous integration >> servers and in local testing, I noticed some GIS test failures with MySQL >> 5.5. Before investigating them, I thought I'd ask to see if there might be >> consensus to drop support for MySQL 5.5 in Django 2.0 instead of 2.1. I'd >> guess anyone using MySQL 5.5 users would stick with Django 1.11 LTS or >> older. >> >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/8980 shows the cleanups for >> removal of MySQL 5.5 support. Also, MySQL 5.5 is the last usage among the >> built-in database backends for the supports_microsecond_precision >> database feature so there's a chance that could be removed also, though I >> found usage of it in django_pyodbc [1]. >> >> [0] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SupportedDatabaseVersions -- though >> we've made some exceptions like dropping support earlier for Oracle 11, >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/ >> IawbBWzPXaA/discussion >> [1] https://github.com/lionheart/django-pyodbc/issues/87 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/django-developers/367b0ca0-1ec9-48b6-a513-4c66a30c491d% >> 40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/367b0ca0-1ec9-48b6-a513-4c66a30c491d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/django-developers/CAFO84S7E6Zp284KUKv2NALN3G% > 2BBUWMxMPPt2uJDFcMtGuz3aig%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFO84S7E6Zp284KUKv2NALN3G%2BBUWMxMPPt2uJDFcMtGuz3aig%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMyDDM27d%2BfUjUskGiP%2B778JcGjgFB85rByKTvFBSuOaGt0Y2w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
