Unify test connection configuration
Travis testing fixes

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 17fb6798cd94b0ddae7390b5a7c6262b40de04dc
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 14:03:57 2012 -0400

    Add a build status widget for Travis

commit 1cd83ef78e628d6755eaa6dfc84d1205519381d4
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 13:59:48 2012 -0400

    Rewrite the repository root README

commit 72848c84bce119b34469ea9113a616bfe8ee4202
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 13:50:00 2012 -0400

    Somehow I missed this connection setup

commit 413c3b6623c65e9591388e3fc3b65f88b7be0ce4
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 13:19:09 2012 -0400

    Giving Travis it's own database with utf8 charset in hopes this will fix the callproc test (which works everywhere else)

commit 400112e0c348b58d5d11a9a9b1cd4d88f02ba23d
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 13:06:00 2012 -0400

    Update the Travis config so that the tests use the correct database configuration file

commit ae94e44ed10f9c9ef7e14ea94ac522d7c1c6437f
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 12:59:29 2012 -0400

    Add Travis-specific configuration file

commit 3581603f45b754b457b4f5f3c7d58a82bd8c04d5
Merge: f42c369 d0e96c7
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Oct 2 12:58:00 2012 -0400

    Merge branch 'master' into MySQLdb-1.2

    Conflicts:
    	MySQLdb/tests/test_MySQLdb_capabilities.py
    	MySQLdb/tests/test_MySQLdb_dbapi20.py

commit f42c369300c856c2bbcc440cd68286bca7a93be8
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:43:00 2012 -0400

    Maybe a subshell will do the trick?

commit fb346e1d40ec1861c7b9169d99e787ff4dc8b25f
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:35:50 2012 -0400

    Travis can't build for Python 2.4 it seems, and the test still weren't all running

commit 2f661f09913a2261203ca03720286828680235b1
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:31:40 2012 -0400

    OK, this should hopefully fix the build process for Travis

commit 899c3342b221031c7fa174a506fbb0f71b68d6c0
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:28:14 2012 -0400

    More Travis fixes

commit 8f593def7bf237126aec2b0b85685f271de911e9
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:19:39 2012 -0400

    Fix test script due to source being down one level.

commit 1936b93cf05497450a3d99819dab7a645c157299
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:14:38 2012 -0400

    Test connection tweaks for Travis

commit 9bf8bcf894b98784e3787c9d6a57574a4ae8dced
Merge: 7ae4f55 d551f8a
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:10:58 2012 -0400

    Merge branch 'travis' into MySQLdb-1.2

commit d551f8a8d9c13b03f5ff3255804a5f20a97d93c7
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 1 13:05:25 2012 -0400

    Initial Travis setup

commit 7ae4f5549b3fb46cc9b71baeaa96d2e1cc5c86a1
Merge: 235d846 c16bc33
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 27 12:49:07 2012 -0400

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/MySQLdb-1.2' into MySQLdb-1.2

commit 235d8466ddd65b3b61f30d51d0bef0a7d13a10fe
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 27 12:18:07 2012 -0400

    History updates for 1.2.4b2

commit 5fda4c2579be93cafe571d27527815fbb17945c4
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep 27 12:06:58 2012 -0400

    Revert raise exc as value statements to raise exc, value since it breaks Python < 2.6.

commit 048b70d90157d9526b89013b51b80afd70883292
Author: farcepest <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 26 16:02:05 2012 -0400

    Fix MySQLdb1-1 Exception format incompatible with previous versions

    Unfortunately, when I broke this, I broke the test at the same time. That should have been a red flag.

commit 162e9e4d84a4b6f2c8320347f2390a9e18af1b29
Author: Andy Dustman <farcepest@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 25 19:56:49 2012 -0400

    General cleanups
README rewrite
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master'

Conflicts:
	.travis.yml
	MySQLdb/tests/test_MySQLdb_capabilities.py
	MySQLdb/tests/test_MySQLdb_dbapi20.py
	MySQLdb/tests/test_MySQLdb_nonstandard.py