Microsoft probably will take Django support to the next level with Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's still beta but a very promising one. Not only it should make compiling Python module binaries (like lxml) much easier, it also fixes binary / nix specific support of node.js / Ruby packages.
On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 10:55:26 PM UTC+3, uri...@gmail.com wrote: > > I wonder if there have been any updates on MS support for a > official/supported MS SQL Django driver? Did the offered engineering effort > from MS ever come through? Given the availability of of MS SQL on Linux, as > well as support for Django in Visual Studio, it would be great if this came > to fruition. > Explicit support for Django with IronPython would also be nice, if MS > would really want to take their Django support to the next level... > > On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 5:37:06 PM UTC-5, Meet Bhagdev wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> On interacting with several Django developers and committers, one of the >> questions often came up, can I use SQL Server on non Window OS's? I wanted >> to share that today Microsoft announced SQL Server availibility on Linux - >> https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/07/announcing-sql-server-on-linux/ >> . >> >> While there is still work needed to strengthen the MSSQL-Django story, we >> hope this aids more Linux developers to give SQL Server a shot. Let me know >> of your thoughts and questions :) >> >> Cheers, >> Meet >> >> On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 4:54:38 PM UTC-8, Vin Yu wrote: >>> >>> Hey Folks, >>> >>> My name is Vin and I work with Meet in the Microsoft SQL Server team. >>> Just wanted to let you all know we are still looking into how we can better >>> improve and support MSSQL for the Django framework. We’ll continue to sync >>> with Michael and let you know of any updates soon. >>> >>> Christiano and Tim - thanks for sharing your interest and sharing how >>> you are using Django with MSSQL. It's great to learn from your scenarios. >>> >>> If you have any concerns, questions or comments feel free to reach out >>> to me at vinsonyu[at]microsoft.com >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/80728ca3-efe3-42c4-a131-8e99a0c40576%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
