https://github.com/andrewgodwin/south2

South 2: Backported django.db.migrations for older Django versions
https://github.com/andrewgodwin/south2

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South 2: Backported django.db.migrations for older Django versions

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andrewgodwin/south2
• Owner: andrewgodwin
• Created: 2013-12-18T16:27:14.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-12-18T16:28:07.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-04T01:27:54.805Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 141 KB
• Stars: 42
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst

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South 2

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This is the repository for South 2, the backport of Django's migrations

code into a separate installable package for Django 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6.

It requires Python 2.6 or newer.

**This code is incomplete and will not work. Do not use this yet.**

How it works

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Most of the code here is automatically pulled from the main Django

development tree and run through some light translation to get it to

import from south paths.

Then, a series of monkeypatches are applied to Django to give it just

enough of 1.7's features to get the code to run. This is a slightly

ridiculous way of doing things, but it saves porting over a lot of

code to only have minor changes, and means updates to migrations can

be pulled from Django directly and don't have to be written a

second time for South 2.

Why?

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South 2 is not intended as a long term measure; it's just here so

that everyone can start using new-style migrations (including

third-party libraries shipping them) before they've upgraded to

1.7 or above.

It will be kept in sync with Django as long as possible, but will

not gain any major new features and may be slightly more unstable

than the native migration support in 1.7 and above. It's recommended

that, as a Django user, if you're running with South 2 you plan for

an eventual upgrade to Django 1.7 or above.