Re: An issue with Django 1.8.6 support for south migrations

2015-11-07 Thread Andrew Godwin
That's an excellent point, Shai - if there are migrations they might be essential to the app functioning. I think in that case we should not have them work on 1.7 and up, and encourage people to send PRs to the apps moving the directory name if it would work with syncdb. Andrew On Sat, Nov 7, 201

Re: An issue with Django 1.8.6 support for south migrations

2015-11-07 Thread Shai Berger
No, I think we can't do this generically. If an app ships (South) migrations, we cannot assume that syncdb is an adequate replacement; the migrations may include data-migrations which create records the app needs. We could in general do something like, try to verify that there are no data migra

Re: An issue with Django 1.8.6 support for south migrations

2015-11-07 Thread Andrew Godwin
I think if the fix is easy, we should continue to support them past 1.7, since we're retaining syncdb support. However, if it's crazy complicated, it's likely not worth it. Andrew On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:59 PM, David Filipovic wrote: > I have initially created the ticket > https://code.django

An issue with Django 1.8.6 support for south migrations

2015-11-04 Thread David Filipovic
I have initially created the ticket https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25618 which addressed the bug that would occur if south migrations somehow ended up being still present in the migrations module. According to a report in: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25618#comment:7, this seem