Hi all, I've been digging around Django for a while now as a possible replacement for some Zope 2 sites we are running. The sites have large MySQL (and in some cases PostGres) backends. The primary keys in the tables vary, but are mostly varchar.
One thing I'm very keen to use the data model aspects of Django for is to power admin sites and to separate the data from the presentation as much as possible by using arbitrary methods as in http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial2/ (Zope has something similar, called 'pluggable brains'). Our Zope systems have become very cluttered, with data and logic intermixed quite extensively, making maintenance and further development quite difficult. It seems though that Django uses ints for primary keys quite extensively, and I guess that will cause some problems with (say) creating new entries using the admin system. Does anyone have any pointers/hints/howtos etc on how to do this with a minimum of hassle? Thanks a lot, Tone
