Hello - I have a Django site that I've been maintaining for 4 years. It is running Django 1.4 now and is using the usual Django User model plus the get_profile() method to retrieve some extra information for each user. Now that Django 1.5 has landed and we can substitute our own custom user model [1], I'm weighing my options for going forward. The get_profile() stuff is now deprecated and will go away in Django 1.7 [2]. I'm trying to decide if I should just keep my profile model around and do the joins [3], or substitute my own model.
I'm wondering if there is a guide somewhere on how to do a migration to a custom user model? In a few places people recommend South, but I have no experience with South. Is it time to learn, or is it overkill? Or can I just write my own script to fix things up? Then I have to go through all my apps and refactor the user.get_profile() calls, right? And all those FK's to Django's User model will have to be changed? I was hoping there was a guide or some blog posts about how to do this but I haven't seen anything other than a few stackoverflow questions. Thanks, -BN [1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizing/#substituting-a-custom-user-model [2]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/internals/deprecation/#id4 [3]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizing/#extending-the-existing-user-model -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
