Thanks Andre! On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:04 PM, André Jarussi <jarussimain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I recently had to upgrade from Django 1.4 to 1.8 (not quite ready for 1.9) > ... I made the upgrade with the minor realeases .. I didn't had much > trouble with the patches .. > > basically .. 1.4 to 1.5 .. deploy .. see whats wrong .. 1.5 to 1.6 .. > deploy .. see whats wrong .. until you reach the version you wanna stay. > > It's a lot less painfull .. and boring. > > Read the release notes before starting any upgrade. It really helps you > have an understading on what's changing and how that affects you. > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/1.5/ > > > Good luck!! > > > On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 10:36:28 AM UTC-2, Vibhu Rishi wrote: >> >> Hi Tom >> >> So essentially you are saying to go with upgrade to 1.7 - fix issues and >> then to 1.8 etc ? >> >> V. >> On Jan 11, 2016 11:45 PM, "'Tom Evans' via Django users" < >> django...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Vibhu Rishi <vibhu...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > Hi >>> > >>> > I work on a hobby project on and off which is based on django. After a >>> long >>> > gap, I picked up the work again. In the meantime, it seems that django >>> has >>> > been evolving faster than I have been working. I am currently on 1.6 >>> (which >>> > I think i had upgraded from 1.4 or 1.3 as my starting base). However, >>> the >>> > current new version of Django is 1.9 >>> > >>> > I created a new virtual environment and used pip to get the latest >>> version >>> > of django. >>> > >>> > Now I am getting a lot of errors. >>> >>> That is the hard way. >>> >>> > >>> > Is there an easy way to upgrade django ? Or a howto for best practices >>> ? >>> > >>> >>> (Releases have version components: "1.9.1" is major release 1, minor >>> release 9, minor-minor release 1) >>> >>> If you are on release 1.N, update to release 1.N+1.Y (with Y being the >>> highest released minor-minor version), and step through its release >>> notes dealing with all the things which have changed or been >>> deprecated, and update them accordingly. Run your test suite to >>> determine if anything has been broken (pro tip: tests are useful - you >>> might want to write some if you don't already test your most common >>> features) >>> >>> Then, do the next minor release until you reach the latest release. >>> >>> A more complete process would be to update to 1.N+1, ensure tests pass >>> and deprecated behaviour handled, THEN subsequently to 1.N+1.Y, ensure >>> tests pass and only then go to the next minor version. That can be a >>> bit paranoid, as (deliberately) not much functionality or breaking >>> changes are added in minor-minor releases of django. >>> >>> Release notes are here: >>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/releases/ >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Tom >>> >>> PS: Best practices are not to fall that far behind! >>> >>> -- >>> 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 django-users...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to django...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAFHbX1LiKM3pzb1bAFTk88iLmbJKWpEaa3NTMdsVw3WJ%2BRwbdw%40mail.gmail.com >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3f247925-dc62-4109-8add-379ce704b8c5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/3f247925-dc62-4109-8add-379ce704b8c5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAPiONwkjke%2BzbUjWERMxNhju9gkF4YvoamGoTmL-hO2JgJ1P3g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
