Bug #81203 Connector / Python doesn't support pip installation

• Submitted: 26 Apr 2016 15:47
• Modified: 28 Apr 2016 7:10
• Reporter: Roberto Polli
• Status: Duplicate
• Category: Connector / Python
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 2.1.3
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[26 Apr 2016 15:47] Roberto Polli

Description:
mysql-connector-python can't be installed with pip.

pip uses setuptools.

setuptools is now the preferred way for python packaging, and it allows both install and uninstall.

mysql-connector-python uses directly distutils - which is limiting. 

How to repeat:

# pip install https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python/archive/master.zip
Complete output from command /home/rpolli/workspace-py/mysql-connector-python/.tox/py27/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-_liMFP-build/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-dJ_jiD-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /home/rpolli/workspace-py/mysql-connector-python/.tox/py27/include/site/python2.7/mysql-connector-python:
    usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
       or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
       or: -c --help-commands
       or: -c cmd --help
    
    error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized

Suggested fix:
Use setuptools when possible.

Fallback to distutils when setuptools is not available.

[26 Apr 2016 15:58] Roberto Polli

See https://github.com/mysql/mysql-connector-python/pull/16

[28 Apr 2016 7:10] Chiranjeevi Battula

Hello Roberto Polli,

Thank you for the bug report.
This duplicate of Bug #79766, Please see Bug #79766.

Thanks,
Chiranjeevi.

[6 May 2022 22:20] Philip Olson

It also appears this general topic was addressed in 8.0.22 when the C/Py build system was rewritten:

MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.22 Release Note:
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Refactored the Connector/Python build system by removing artifacts of old
implementations, improved debugging, and now statically link the C
extensions. This also exposes the distutils commands, to allow the
end-user build packages.
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