Question

On my local development screen I’m using South data migration. I deploy my apps to using git to my production server. I have placed all /south/ folder into my git .ignore file. However, south is still listed in my installed apps.

My question is. Should I include south on the production server also, or just split my setting files out local and production with south only install on local.

How do others handle this?

Thanks

Answer 1

I see no reasons to not install/use south in your production server, it will provide you a way to alter the db schema also in production server in the future. I usually do that and I manage both development and production schema migrations using fabric.

Splitting settings file may be required anyhow (e.g. for DB/Debug settings)

You may also conditionally add south to INSTALLED_APPS basing on something in your settings.py:

e.g.

if DEBUG:  // or hostname == 'localhost', path=='...', anything else
    INSTALLED_APPS += ('south',)