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Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by maspwr »

danielsamuels wrote: post #17
pvnick wrote: post #14

I'm currently working with Django for a client's project I'm developing. Coming off a LAMP stack binge, the technology itself has been an absolute delight. I've been given the directive to use South to manage the data model, but for future projects I was hoping somebody with more experience can give some insights as to what you've found works and what doesn't work. I'm not the biggest fan of South, but maybe it's jus…

Unfortunately that's the best we have right now. However, the guy who wrote South (and is a core Django developer) ran a Kickstarter last month to raise funds to write South-like functionality directly into the Django core.

He (Andrew Godwin) also recently gave a talk on the subject, (http://lanyrd.com/2013/djangocon-europe/schgcz/).

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by wiremine »

This can't be right: 1.5 was just released in February. It takes at least 1 year between Django releases, right? Right!?

(He said, sarcastically.)

Seriously, it is GREAT to see the framework continue to roll forward.

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by rattray »

danielsamuels wrote: post #17
pvnick wrote: post #14

I'm currently working with Django for a client's project I'm developing. Coming off a LAMP stack binge, the technology itself has been an absolute delight. I've been given the directive to use South to manage the data model, but for future projects I was hoping somebody with more experience can give some insights as to what you've found works and what doesn't work. I'm not the biggest fan of South, but maybe it's jus…

Unfortunately that's the best we have right now. However, the guy who wrote South (and is a core Django developer) ran a Kickstarter last month to raise funds to write South-like functionality directly into the Django core.

for the curious: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...

£17,952 pledged of £2,500 goal. So it looks like this should be happening. Stated intention as to when:

> As the intention is to get something into Django core itself, the idea is to land this for either the 1.6 or 1.7 release of Django. The work itself should be mainly completed by July 2013, and ready for alpha testing and feedback at that point for those who want to try a development version of Django.

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by rattray »

euroclydon wrote: post #20
adamauckland wrote: post #15

> Does Django have a bright future in a world that's moving heavily client side Where are you getting the data for the client from? Django-Rest-Framework is a very convenient way to get data down into the browser layer from a DB.

I think this is an area where ASP.NET MVC excels because, while REST is nice, you also have to consider web sockets, and I have not seen good web socket support in Django, where ASP.NET has SignalR which is loads easier to configure than a custom solution with Django and Nginx/Apache. Not to mention that SignalR has very nice degradation support on both ends when web sockets are not available.

There is a socket.io server for Python that claims to work with Django: https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio

I haven't used it personally, and would be very interested to hear others' thoughts.

EDIT: Looking through the example code ( https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio/tree/master/exam... ), it doesn't seem as straightforward as one might hope, especially compared to the channels API.

FWIW, I'm using the AppEngine Channels API from my Django app, and have yet to be disappointed with it.

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by lhc- »

danielsamuels wrote: post #17
pvnick wrote: post #14

I'm currently working with Django for a client's project I'm developing. Coming off a LAMP stack binge, the technology itself has been an absolute delight. I've been given the directive to use South to manage the data model, but for future projects I was hoping somebody with more experience can give some insights as to what you've found works and what doesn't work. I'm not the biggest fan of South, but maybe it's jus…

Unfortunately that's the best we have right now. However, the guy who wrote South (and is a core Django developer) ran a Kickstarter last month to raise funds to write South-like functionality directly into the Django core.

He has been writing updates on his progress at http://www.aeracode.org/category/django-diaries/ as well, if you are curious.

Re: Django 1.6 beta 1 released

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Post by run4yourlives »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #4

I really enjoy working with Django, but in many ways, it seems to be staying pretty vanilla while other technologies head in more experimental directions. Does Django have a bright future in a world that's moving heavily client side, or will it be relegated to a relatively bland corner of the web world?

> it seems to be staying pretty vanilla

Thank God.

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