hm, at first i didn't even read the release notes.. But i think we should definitly make a blocker issue in trac. Currently re-introduce initial_data is the worst thing we could do, since django 1.9 requires migrations and do deprecate that behavior: > Deprecated since version 1.7: If an application uses migrations, there is no automatic loading of fixtures. Since migrations will be required for applications in Django 1.9, this behavior is > considered deprecated. If you want to load initial data for an app, consider doing it in a migration.
Currently I think that the third solution could be the best, in my case we have like a dataset of 50 or more entries as initial data, which could easily be mocked and/or dumped and reloaded. It won't take that much time. And as you already said for bigger applications fixtures didn't work, too. But I don't think it will make it in Django 1.7 and since data migrations are unusable if you rely on testing and initial_data this wouldn't be too good. > At this time I haven't touched the new migrations system for django. But now, reading the releases notes and this thread... > I don't understand how data migrations can replace initial_data, are two things completely different and they have completely different scope. I'm slightly confusing. Data Migrations are the same thing than initial_data i mean they can be used to load a data set and drop that dataset, thats way more flexible. But currently Django's TestSuite isn't prepared for Data Migrations. Thats infact a problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/6c14d75b-6720-4c97-b697-93adb759f134%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
