On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:04 PM, David Lindquist <david.lindqu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > 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 -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
