Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
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Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
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Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#2It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers.
For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside of database migrations, Django is a very battery-included framework, so it's weird that until 1.7 data migrations were handled by third party tools (mostly South) and not mentioned at all in the Django documentation.
This is a big step for Django. I'm excited for the (not too distant) future when 1.7 is the official release.
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#3It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers. For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside of database migrations, Django is a very battery-included framework, so it's weird that until 1.7 data migrations were handled by third party tools (mostly South) and not mentioned at…
Totally agree. It is such an important part of a Django project where Models are involved. Every release of Django brings exciting and well thought through features. Future looks great for this awesome Python framework!
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#4> Applications can run code at startup, before Django does anything else, with the ready() method of their configuration.
I have been waiting for something like this for a very long time. No more wondering where signals should go. [0]
[0]https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/applications/#djan...
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#5> Applications can run code at startup, before Django does anything else, with the ready() method of their configuration. I have been waiting for something like this for a very long time. No more wondering where signals should go. [0] [0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/applications/#djan...
yes! No more circular imports because of signal receivers being added to models.py. Super excited about this.
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#6The (preliminary) release notes are full of nice things https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.7/
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#7It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers. For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside of database migrations, Django is a very battery-included framework, so it's weird that until 1.7 data migrations were handled by third party tools (mostly South) and not mentioned at…
I wonder if there will be a tool to convert (migrate?) South migration data to Django's native format.
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#8Wasn't the "New system check framework" already in 1.6? I remember seeing warnings about BooleanFields without defaults.
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#9Django's all grown up! I'm pretty psyched about this release. Obviously, the long-awaited migrations functionality is the centerpiece, but for a framework without that many rough edges, they do such a great job of finding the ones that remain and terminating them. Looking forward to the end of magical models.py behavior; to stronger support for apps; easier to use custom QuerySets and reverse relation Managers; and Lookups, Transforms, and custom prefetching in the ORM. This is looking like the most exciting release since 1.4 for tightening up the core of the framework.
Anybody have any insight into what's next?
Re: Django 1.7 alpha 1 released
#10It's great to see schema migrations move into Django core. South is great, but Django will be much better with schema migrations baked in, especially for newcomers. For anyone coming to Django from Rails, South seems anomalous. Outside of database migrations, Django is a very battery-included framework, so it's weird that until 1.7 data migrations were handled by third party tools (mostly South) and not mentioned at…
I wonder if there will be a tool to convert (migrate?) South migration data to Django's native format.
It has been stated by Andrew Godwin (author of South and the new native migrations) that there will be a clear path to switch from South to native migrations. And also for people who can't upgrade to 1.7 there should be South 2 with some of the new features backported from native migrations.