MySQL Connector/Python Release Notes
Installing from a
wheel
(bdist package) is the recommended, except for
Enterprise Linux systems, on which the RPM-based installation
method may be preferred.
Wheels can be directly and easily installed without an extra build
step. However, a wheel package is often specific to a particular
platform and Python version, so there may be cases in which
pip cannot find a suitable wheel package based
on your platform or your Python version. When that happens, you
can get the
source
distribution (sdist) and produce a
wheel package from it for installing Connector/Python.
Note
Creating a wheel package from an sdist may
fail for some older Python version, as the Connector/Python
source code is only compatible with a specific subset of Python
versions.
In summary, the recommendation is to use a
bdist unless pip cannot find
a suitable wheel package for your setup, or if you need to custom
build a wheel package for some special reasons.