Thank James for the insight about LTS. As I am just learning Django and not yet working professionally. Hence I wanted to avoid any outdated version. However, I felt Django 1.4 is good.
I may use Django 1.4 back after having checked 1.7. :) Thanks again for your time and valuable opinion. On Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:01:08 UTC+5, James Schneider wrote: > > Not to throw a wrench in to this conversation, but it should be noted that > Django 1.4 is considered the LTS (long term support) version, and > is acceptable for production use if you do not need any of the fancy > features in 1.7. > > If you are looking at a small project and don't mind upgrading between > version releases, or you have need for some new feature in the Django > core, 1.7 would be the way to go. If you are looking at a large long > standing project, I would consider 1.4 for stability and minimal required > security updates. I don't believe that the next LTS version has been > announced yet, so I suspect 1.4 will be supported for the next year or so > at minimum. > > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/internals/release-process/#long-term-support-lts-releases > > The version of Python to use probably should follow similar guidelines > (2.7 being well established while 3.X is the new version with > enhancements). The version available on your servers by default will > probably also help drive this decision unless you are comfortable > installing the version you want (although both 2.7 and 3.X are generally > both easily made available on moderately recent versions of the major OS'). > Availability of needed libraries is also a key factor, but the major ones > shouldn't be an issue. > > -James > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/64b5c1d2-1446-47bd-a204-44562f278864%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
