GHUM wrote:
>> One side effect of this being third party code is that hosting
>>services may not have it available, even when they have both Python
>>and MySQL up. This is never a problem with Perl or PHP, so that's
>>a negative for Python.
>
>
> I for one think it is a good thing to not have MySQL adapters
> integrated into Python core. Neither the philopsophie, nor the licence
> of the two products fit together.
It's a wire protocol. At one end of a socket, there's MySQL, and
at the other end, there's a client. Neither side needs code from
the other. The protocol is published. So there's no license issue.
John Nagle
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