py311+-mysqlclient

[Craig Treleaven]

> On Jan 10, 2024, at 2:47 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban at fiee.net> wrote:
> 
> Am 09.01.24 um 22:32 schrieb Craig Treleaven:
>>> On Jan 9, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban at fiee.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> is there a reason there’s no py311 or py312 version of mysqlclient?
>>> 
>>> Hraban
>>> 
>> I created it for something I used to work on.  The other thing has gone by the wayside.  Our user stats didn’t show anybody else using it so I hadn’t really thought about it for some time.  Now that I look, I see that upstream has made some non-trivial updates.
>> 
>> https://ports.macports.org/port/py-mysqlclient/details/
>> 
>> I’ll have a go at updating it.  May take a few days.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> I have MacPort’s Python 3.11 as my default Python. Additionally installed 3.10 now and made a virtualenv with it where I needed mysqlclient (a local test environment for a Django app that I wanted to check on different Python versions); I couldn’t get mysqlclient (3.10) working, since the global one isn’t available in the venv and pip can’t install it (I guess the mysql-dev libs are missing). I symlinked the one from MacPorts’ Python framework into the venv’s site-packages, and it works so far, but I don’t like such hacks, since now my requirements.txt doesn’t work for the local installation any more.
> 
> If you had hints how to resolve this situation better, I’d be glad. (I found nothing helpful on the internet, search engine results just aren’t usable any more…)
> 
> (I’m still on Mojave BTW.)

The update turned out to be a little more involved than I expected.  MacPorts has versions of MariaDB from 10.2 through 10.11.  I’m not following db stuff anymore and I haven’t got a clue what is considered ‘mainstream’ now.  I’ve set the py-mysqlclient port to default to MariaDB 10.9 in hopes that that version is relatively recent and yet stable enough to use.

Please either reply or file a ticket if you run into any problems.

Craig