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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
