Thanks Josh and Graham, I'll stick with PostgreSQL then, but wait until the next Mezzanine release before upgrading Django. I'm just glad to have got my site online for now! Cheers, Christian
On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 4:31:18 PM UTC-4, Graham Oliver wrote: > > Hi Christian > In terms of MySQL vs PostgreSQL have a look at > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/migrations > > When I read > 'PostgreSQL is the most capable of all the databases here in terms of > schema support' > > and > > 'MySQL lacks support for transactions around schema alteration operations, > meaning that if a migration fails to apply you will have to manually unpick > the changes in order to try again (it’s impossible to roll back to an > earlier point).' > > I decided that PostgreSQL was the best option. > > Cheers > g > > On Saturday, 16 May 2015 02:32:36 UTC+12, xnx wrote: >> >> Hello Mezzanine Users, >> >> I'm new to Mezzanine but not Django: I'm enjoying learning it a lot and >> it does a great job, but I've run into a couple of problems. I am trying to >> deploy Mezzanine under Python 3.3.5 and, although I have a working site, I >> have a couple of questions about compatibility with the packages I need. >> I'm using Anaconda 2.2.0. >> >> * Installing Mezzanine with `conda` automatically downgrades my Django >> version to 1.6.11: is there an upcoming release that will support Django >> 1.7+ under Python 3? I'd like to use django-migrations. >> >> * Is there any way of using MySQL in this stack? I found I could not >> install MySQLdb under Python 3 and this seems to be a requirement for >> Mezzanine using a MySQL backend but isn't provided by Anaconda. I'm using >> PostgreSQL like a grown-up instead, but my preference would probably be for >> MySQL. >> >> * The Mezzanine docs at http://mezzanine.jupo.org/docs/user-accounts.html >> suggest using AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE to implement user profiles in a >> Mezzanine site, but the Django docs at >> http://django.readthedocs.org/en/latest/releases/1.5.html#auth-profile-module >> >> say that this has been deprecated since 1.5. Am I missing something here? >> >> Thanks for reading, >> Christian >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mezzanine-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
