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Tony
Tony

Reputation: 1057

Why uses South to do migration in Django?

I am maintaining a Django project in version 1.6.X. I had found some doubt and issue a question here.

As my known, Django from version 1.7 is able to do migration. And, I started to get Django it is version 1.7. Its built-in scripts have migration. Therefore, I have no experience about doing migration by South.

So, I have a question. When Django hasn't migration before 1.7, the Django project adopt South as migration solution. Right?

If I update the Django project to version 1.7.x, may I deprecate South?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Alan Avalos
Alan Avalos

Reputation: 141

You can still use South as a migration alternative for a Django 1.7 project. Although it's recommended that you use the Django built-in migration functionality; you said yourself: you're more familiar with the Django built-in than with South.

The Django documentation has an excellent guide to upgrade from South: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations/#upgrading-from-south

Follow the guide and you can remove South's dependency from the project.

Upvotes: 1

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