Best Minimum MySQL for Django 1.0

[Adam Nelson]

Hello,

I'll be making a proposal to the Django core group soon and I wanted to get some feedback from the MySQL community.

Does anybody know of any stats regarding these two questions:

1. How many hosts are using which versions of MySQL. By hosts, I'm
specifically interested in potential web servers.
2. What an appropriate minimum version for MySQL might be for Django
1.0+

Django, in case you don't know, is a framework which uses Python 2.3
and above. Right now it's kind of ambiguous what the minimum MySQL
version would be for this framework - in theory, even 3.23 might
work. One of the essential characteristics of Django is that it
allows unicode in any variable - theoretically including any part of a
table or index definition (although this is considered bad form - more
unicode capability is a big plus in the Django world).

For this and many other reasons, I'm inclined to think that MySQL 4.1
should be a minimum requirement for Django on MySQL. Due to the
limited uptake of 4.1, I'm further inclined to think that 5.0 should
be a minimum. Due to the fact that even Debian Etch (pretty much the
most stable distro) has had MySQL 5.0 for a year and a half, I'm
inclined to use their minimum of MySQL 5.0.32 as the minimum for
Django 1.0.

Django doesn't need to be profoundly portable, it simply needs to be
able to handle most typical modern web server and development
environments.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

-Adam