Hi Jeff,
I'm kind of in the same boat - although my site is on Django 1.11 and I
could probably leave it there, although there's some 2.x features I'd
like to use.
To be honest, I'd recommend attempting No. 2) (fork and attempt to
upgrade it yourself) - and yes, if your changes aren't going to break
too many backwards compatibility things, a pull request when you're done
may be useful.
Inspired by your post, I made a quick start on this yesterday, with
mezzanine and cartridge, and after about 5 small fixes (and a bit of
research), managed to get past the initial "createdb" step of setup.
I've not pushed my changes back to my forks yet, but it wasn't too much
effort to get this far. I'll summarise the changes below to get you
started. There's probably more things to do based on actual operation of
Mezzanine, but this should be enough to at least generate a new test site.
Hopefully with a number of people working on this we can support Django
2.2 without also breaking Django 1.11 compatibility... A tricky task, no
doubt!
Seeya. Danny.
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Mezzanine changes:
core/templatetags/mezzanine_tags.py
TOKEN_BLOCK, TOKEN_COMMENT, TOKEN_VAR and TOKEN_TEXT are no longer
members of django.template.base. Instead, import TokenType and replace
the references with TokenType.BLOCK, TokenType.COMMENT etc.
project_template/project_name/settings.py
django.contrib.messages must be added to INSTALLED_APPS
Cartridge changes:
shop/models.py
Replace @models.permalink decorator on get_absolute_url() with using
reverse inside the method, i.e.
def get_absolute_url(self):
return reverse("shop_product", args=(self.slug,))
project_template/settings.py
Remove django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware
from list of middlewares. It's no longer required from Django 1.10 and
has been removed in Django 2.0 (see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/releases/2.0/#miscellaneous)
django.contrib.messages must be added to INSTALLED_APPS
shop/views.py
Replace from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse with from
django.urls import reverse
On 18/06/2019 2:55 am, Jeff wrote:
I have recently created a related issue on github but didn't receive
any response (https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/issues/1928).
Basically Mezzanine compatibility with Django 2 is limited to 2.0
which is no longer supported. Moreover that compatibility is not fully
tested.
I need to upgrade a legacy site which is based on Mezzanine 3.4.1 and
Django 1.8. Ideally we would like to upgrade to Django 2.2 because
it's an LTS version and we could stay on that until April 2022.
There are a few options but I'm lacking information to make a good
decision:
1. wait until Mezzanine officially supports Django 2.2, but I have no
idea when or if that will happen. It seems to me, that at the
current pace it won't happen this year. (It's not a negative
judgement, I'm very grateful for being able to use a free and
mature CMS for many years on so many site!). Do you have any
roadmap or even some approximate schedule?
2. fork Mezzanine and upgrade things myself but with a prioritisation
based on the need of my site. Hopefully I'd be able to contribute
back to the main repo. However I have no idea how much work would
be involved? Is it a 2 day job or a 2 week job? Do you have any
sense of how much work would is left, which Mezzanine components
need to be worked on for 2.2 compatibility?
3. automate the migration of the content to another CMS, that would
be more sustainable but would also require quite a lot of
development. This is my least favourite option (because I can't
think of a better Django-CMS for my particular needs) but at least
I can accurately assess the development effort and time-frame.
Thanks in advance for any piece of information that could help me and
my team better evaluate the situation.
Geoffroy
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