Gregory Piñero wrote: > I always figured a problem with using MySQL was distribution. Would > you have to tell your users to install MySQL and then to leave the > service running? I've never found an easy way to embed MySQL into a > python app, and even if you could, would you then have to pay for it?
There are more reasons than that not to use MySQL... See e.g. http://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html It seems a lot of the most badly missed features are appearing in MySQL 5.0, but as features are added, I suppose the claimed advantages in performance and simplicity withers away, and these features can hardly be considered very mature yet. (One should also note that MySQL manuals have often claimed that features it lacked were useless, or even dangerous, until MySQL AB decided to implement them themselves... :) Also, the GPL/Commercial licence is not a good thing for commercial apps, particularly since this licence applies even to client libs. Recent PostgreSQL versions are stable, fast, and have native Windows versions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
