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Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by SudoAlex »

ubernostrum wrote: post #28
illumen wrote: post #27

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Seems like a new release should be done? Isn't that what RC and pre releases are for? Was the release uploaded to pypi or a download page? If so, that's released IMHO. eg, debian, various news outlets, and others auto scan download pages for new releases.

Well, what we do is generate everything, then share it privately and quickly amongst the core team for final review before flipping switches and making things public. One actually important part of this is verifying things like "the package I download from what will become the public release URL has checksums that match what's in the checksum file", so it does have to actually go up on our server for that. And if we…

Perhaps the better thing to do for this would be that no changes are made between the last release candidate and the final release. Some projects do it, some don't.

Mistakes can be made if you have to do version number tweaks in various places before releasing.

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by marcosdumay »

d0m wrote: post #36

For those who works with designers or html people who don't use the command line, how do you collaborate with them with Django? For me it's a perpetual issue to get them up and running, commit/push with git, etc etc. Is there an easier solution? Basically, I'd like them to get started and be able to tweak the templates and css as effortless as possible. It's kind of very hard to have people working directly in templa…

There are several GUIs for version control software out there, Tortoise deserves a mention, but there are others if you don't like it.

For Django, all you need is a portable Python installation, and a start script for starting the development server, isn't it?

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by coolsunglasses »

jroseattle wrote: post #47
EnderMB wrote: post #42

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I'm quite interested in your experiences with Django, as I'm somewhat in the same boat. I'm a .NET developer, and while I love C#, am a fan of strongly-typed languages, and am quite fond of the .NET framework I have a soft spot for Python and especially Django. Similarly, I had a few days and decided to go out of my comfort zone. A few days later I had written a blog script and had modified it to work with Google App…

You're in the exact same spot I was. C# developer, completely enthralled with strongly-typed languages and OO development. I definitely use Python professionally (and some Django, but that's not the critical stuff.) It's not the only thing I do, but it's another arrow in my quiver. It's really useful for generating applications that need to do a lot of stuff, but benefit from brevity in code. Django is actually more…

Python is strongly typed, you mean statically typed.

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by collyw »

speg wrote: post #6
EliAndrewC wrote: post #2

The release notes can be found at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6/ Personally, I'm happy that Python 3 is now officially supported, though in practice I haven't had an issues with using Django 1.5 with Python 3.

How is library support? I didn't have any issues with django 1.5 itself, but many of my favorite libraries weren't ready yet.

The standard MySQL driver wasn´t working the other day when I tried. That might be quite a big one for some people. I saw you could apply a patch, but I didn´t get round to trying yet.

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by mahmoudhossam »

kot-behemoth wrote: post #16
pydanny wrote: post #12

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Django Packages lists 160 apps that work with Python 3. See https://www.djangopackages.com/python3/ From personal experience, most of the critical ones are compatible.

Well, apart from Fabric.

And reportlab

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by collyw »

pydanny wrote: post #12
speg wrote: post #6

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How is library support? I didn't have any issues with django 1.5 itself, but many of my favorite libraries weren't ready yet.

Django Packages lists 160 apps that work with Python 3. See https://www.djangopackages.com/python3/ From personal experience, most of the critical ones are compatible.

I think the MySQL one might be quite a big one for many people. I know Postgress is better (South tells me every time the migration doesn´t work) but for converting older projects it definitely going to be useful.

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by jroseattle »

coolsunglasses wrote: post #63
jroseattle wrote: post #47

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You're in the exact same spot I was. C# developer, completely enthralled with strongly-typed languages and OO development. I definitely use Python professionally (and some Django, but that's not the critical stuff.) It's not the only thing I do, but it's another arrow in my quiver. It's really useful for generating applications that need to do a lot of stuff, but benefit from brevity in code. Django is actually more…

Python is strongly typed, you mean statically typed.

Yep, typo on my part.

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by fletchowns »

The dedication to Malcolm Tredinnick was a very nice thing for the Django team to do. I didn't know of Malcolm or his passing before reading the release notes, but he seemed like a wonderful person who will be missed by many. Very sad that somebody like that is no longer with us. Reading his tweets I get the sense he was a really cool guy.

Really nice piece about Malcolm from his former boss: https://plus.google.com/+errazudinishak/posts/6j6iAMhNfnb

Congrats to the Django team on releasing 1.6, I'm looking forward to upgrading soon!

Re: Django 1.6 released

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Post by mixmastamyk »

commixon wrote: post #45
codonaut wrote: post #34

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Do you use something in place of Fabric?

Paramiko could be a good example i think...

I was thinking something more like ansible.

Of course I'm partial to my new pave project: https://bitbucket.org/mixmastamyk/pave It is based on fabric, and uses a yaml file to automate it.

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