*** django-compat-patcher 0.2 has been released. ***
DCP is a “magic” package which adds backwards/forwards compatibility
patches to Django, so that your app ecosystem doesn’t get broken by
trivial changes made to the core of the framework.
It injects compatibility shims like function/attribute aliases, restores
data structures which were replaced by stdlib ones, extends the
behaviour of callables (eg. referring to a view by object, by name, or
by dotted path), and can even preserve deprecated module as “import
aliases” (ex. keep importing from “django.contrib.comments” instead of
the now external “django_comments”).
This allows to you upgrade your dependencies one at a time, to
fork/patch them when you have a proper opportunity, and most importantly
to not get stuck, when deadlines are tight and your dependencies
suddenly have conflicting requirements. DCP somehow relaxes the
deprecation policy of Django, so that it comes closer to semantic
versioning.
Technically, DCP manages a set of “fixers”, small utilities which
advertise the change that they make, the versions of Django that they
support, and which on monkey-patch the Django framework on demand. By
applying these fixers in a proper order (sometimes before, sometimes
after django.setup()), DCP can workaround multiple breaking changes
which target the same part of the code (eg. a tag library being added
and then removed).
Beware, DCP is aimed at project maintainers. If you are developing a
reusable Django application, you can’t expect all your users to
integrate DCP as well. In this case, to support a wide range of Django
versions, you should rather use a toolkit like Django-compat
<https://github.com/arteria/django-compat>. You may think of DCP as a
“runtime 2to3 for Django’, wherease Django-Compat is rather a “six
module for Django”.
Feel free to contribute new fixers, for backwards or forwards
compatibility, depending on the compatibility troubles you encounter on
your projects
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-compat-patcher
https://github.com/pakal/django-compat-patcher
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