Why use South during initial development?

Question

I\'m wondering about the advantages of using (django) South during heavy initial development of a project.

At the early stages of development there\'s normally rapid mo

Answer 1

It definitely is possible to use south from a certain stage on and do an initial migration. SOuth docs here: http://south.aeracode.org/docs/tutorial/part1.html#converting-existing-apps

I do use south during development, as i often have data that i use to test the UI or such things. South is also very helpful in keeping your database consistent if you do not start with a complete new database after every model change. Therefor i agree with meder too, it would be great if Django would have that schema migration, on the other hand it doesn't matter that much as south is very easy to implement.