Quick dmigrations Update

Mar 2, 2009 · 1 minute read

I’ve finally been getting round to doing a bit of work on dmigrations, the Python based database migration tool we developed at work.

dmigrations offers a simple but flexible way of managing changes to the database in your Django projects. It is a replacement for Django’s built in syncdb command.

I still have some work to do to merge in a number of modifications we’ve been running internally for a while but I’ve triaged the issues list that had been left alone for too long and merged in a fantastic collection of patches from a few people including Alexander Robbins and Chris Lamb. Thanks hugely to everyone for these.

Everything is available in trunk in SVN at the moment ahead of me cleaning a few thinks up and updating the download version. I’ve added a setup.py file as well ahead of hopefully adding it to the Python Package Index.

I obviously wasn’t the only one who had decided to do some work on the project in the last couple of days. msaelices has just submitted a patch which adds a PostgreSQL backend. I don’t tend to use PostgreSQL personally so if anyone does want to have a look at running dmigrations with the patch I’d love to hear about it.