On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:34 -0700, Joshua Partogi wrote: > I agree with David. > > I think this migration tool is essential these days. Anything will do > for me as long as it comes prepackaged with django.
But that's just the point. *Anything* clearly won't do. You already have "django-admin.py dbshell" and "django-admin.py sqlall <app_name> that provides all the necessary information to make model changes, but you want something else. Now combine your particular preferences with a couple of tens of thousands of other people's preferences and you can see the situation becomes a bit larger. It always strikes me as a bit odd, this constant request for something like this to be shipped with Django. The reason it isn't shipped with Django is partly because we don't want to restrict people. Django is a framework for building external, distributable applications and at least three groups have done that in this space. So go use one of those. You're asking us to decide for you, which is a noble enough goal and something Django tries to do when accepting something external for merging. However, that requires a clearly "best" solution, which right now doesn't exist for reasons mention in other posts in this thread. It also puts a huge burden on us (core maintainers), since then we have to maintain it, manage the feature and bug lists and provide all the support. Right now, we're distributing that effort to the people who want to invest the time and encouraging them to experiment and see what works. Once these things are merged, they become a lot less flexible and development pace does slow down. For good reasons, it becomes more restrictive. In short, be careful what you wish for, it might just come true. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
