On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Mike Driscoll <kyoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I posted about this over a year ago and Jacob Kaplan-Moss said that > Django would eventually get composite key support, but he didn't know > when. Has anything changed? I dug around for SqlAlchemy+Django links, > but they seem to be the same as last year, except deader.
Well, Jacob's advice is still accurate. Django will eventually get composite key support, but we don't know when :-) Composite key support is "one of those features", like Multi-db support and schema evolution. Everybody seems to want it, but so far, nobody has been willing or able to put the time into implementing it. The core developers are all volunteers, so our time is limited, and so far, other features have taken priority. To whit - there have been 1829 checkins, making 73919 insertions and 28301 deletions to 849 files in the 8 months since v1.0 was released. The other way this could get done is if someone from the community were to step up to the plate to implement the feature - and more importantly, to work with the core team to get an implementation from "working, but has some problems" to "ready for checkin". So far, this hasn't happened. If you wait long enough, one of the core team will eventually get around to implementing composite primary key support. However, there are no guarantees on the timeline for this - there are plenty of other features that are begging to be implemented. The good news is that this is a volunteer open-source project. If you _really_ need composite support, then you can push up your sleeves and start writing code yourself, or you can find someone for who is willing to exchange legal tender for working code. I'm lead to believe there are many such people in the world :-) Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
