Django 1.5.1 support from Google App Engine

Question

I am planning to make a large site and want to host it on Google App Engine using Django 1.5.1 web framework. But as I searched around the Internet I did not found any positive response about my question.

Reasons for Using Django 1.5.1-

• Django 1.5.1 is the latest Django version and Django Developers at djangoproject.org says that you would get all the bugfixes and support for these versions.

• Django 1.5.1 (and in general Django is used for large websites the great sites undoubtedly bitbucket.org , disqus.com , instagram , pinterest).

My Questions are:

• Can I add Django 1.5.1 in Google App Engine library would it work on Google App Engine?

• Should I use Google App Engine if I am hosting a site using Django 1.5.1 or I use some other PaaS for this ?

• Should I use Django 1.3 as it provides in the library of GAE ?

Answer 1

Provided you are using Cloud SQL as your backend and not the datastore, you should be able to use your own Django. You might need to do some work in tweaking the database settings.

App Engine provides up to django 1.4, so you can use that if you don't want to install your own.

If you want to use the datastore, you'll have to use django-nonrel. I believe there is an experimental branch that's up to 1.5 if not 1.5.1