What does “Migrating a Django application” mean?

Question

I kept thinking a lot about the meaning of migrating a Django app the last few days and heard about migrating Django apps with django-south. Maybe it\'s just th

Answer 1

Migrate typically refers to moving an application from one location to another. This translation can happen either via a physical movement. (Such as moving from one server to another), or as a more logical movement. (Such as from C# to F#)

Given that only one technology is mentioned. It is likely primarily a physical movement application with a slight logical movement of the database side.

To summarize what the application does. It likely simply exports all of your configuration and data to a file structure, which can then be reintegrated into your database on the new server.