On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David Lindquist
<david.lindqu...@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
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> >
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Joshua Partogi
> > <joshua.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there any chance dmigrations
> >> (http://code.google.com/p/dmigrations/) will be merged into django
> >> codebase? Because it removes the pain for db migrations :-D
> >
> > dmigrations is one of several database schema migration projects that
> > exists in the community. Given the feature set that is available to
> > other migration projects (in particular, Django Evolution and South),
> > it is unlikely that dmigrations will be merged into Django as-is.
> > However, adding schema migration is on the radar as something that we
> > want to add.
> >
> > For more details, search the Django mailing lists - this comes up
> > fairly regularly. Also, look on YouTube for the DjangoCon video where
> > the developers of Django Evolution, South and dmigrations discuss
> > their projects and the prospects for integrating a migration project
> > into trunk.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Russ Magee %-)
> >
>
> I have a question about schema migration that is a bit tangential to
> this thread, but it is something I have always wondered about:
>
> Why has it taken so long for Django to acquire this functionality
> when a framework like Ruby on Rails has had it for years? Is there
> something about Django that makes it more difficult to implement? Was
> the Rails implementation hastily added? Is it simply low on the
> priority list?
>
> Just curious.
>
>
> > >
>
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> >
>
Well there have been external Django application that do schema evolution
for quite some time, what there hasn't been is a consensus on how it should
look, so until we have them including anything in Django would therefore
disappoint a decent percentage of the community.

Alex

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