Proposal: Stop supporting MySQL < 5.0 in Django 1.5

[Ramiro Morales]

Hi all,

I've opened ticket [1]#18116 to track this cleanup change.

This change would allow to close a handful of tickets about half-backed
compatibility with deprecated MySQL 4.x.

More specifically the commit would make Django trunk require MySQL
5.0.3 or newer. This will allow avoid a limitation on the length
(<= 255) of char fields imposed by older MySQL versions.

Opinions on the proposal and the respective patch are welcome.

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Ramiro Morales

1. https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18116#comment:7