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Re:Going for a trot on the Django pony by johnpaulett on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @03:50PM (#1113263)
Also, South was considered for 1.2 but deemed not yet ready: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.2Features#Highly...
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Re:Going for a trot on the Django pony by mrtron on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @03:55PM (#1113286)
From personal experience, South is not ready.

I end up spending 10x the effort using it than writing a few custom queries to add columns or drop a table.

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Re:Going for a trot on the Django pony by timtrueman on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @04:33PM (#1113397)
How well would you say you know South?

I felt that way at first but once I got to know South I found it to be much better than custom queries.

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Re:Going for a trot on the Django pony by mrtron on Tuesday February 09, 2010 @07:43PM (#1113847)
About as well as needed for an average user. The problem with it is I don't work within its workflow - and it doesn't nicely deal with mine.
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