I’m trying out byteflow under django 1.2, and I finally have it working. There were only a few changes to make.

First off, the databases are specified differently in django 1.2 — there is the option to connect to multiple databases now. Strangely however, django did not force me to change my database settings … I guess there is some backward compabitility stuff for now.

old settings_local.py

    DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'
    DATABASE_NAME = 'byteflow'
    DATABASE_USER = 'db_user'
    DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'sekrit'

new settings_local.py

    DATABASES = { 'default' :
        {
            'ENGINE' : 'postgresql_psycopg2',
            'NAME'   : 'byteflow',
            'USER'   : 'db_user',
            'PASSWORD' : 'sekrit',
        }
    }

There are also some deprecation warnings in the logs about admin.site.root, in urls.py (I may have added all those ‘settings.BLOG_URLCONF_ROOT’ in when using ‘bjb’ as my URL_PREFIX):

old:
    url(r'^%sadmin/(.*)' % settings.BLOG_URLCONF_ROOT,
        admin.site.root, name='admin'),

new:
    url(r'^%sadmin/(.*)' % settings.BLOG_URLCONF_ROOT,
        include(admin.site.urls)),

But this didn’t work for me so I went back to the old way. The problem was that when I asked to edit a blog post, it brought me to the main admin page. When I clicked on the Change link, it stayed on the main admin page. I’ll have to look into that another time.

An update was required to apps/tagging/managers, in usage_for_queryset, to update the database query for the django 1.2 database scheme (multiple databases). I found this hint.

Also, in order to run django 1.2 on my stable machine, I set up a virtualenv (with --no-site-packages) in which to run it. Had to install all the site-packages into the virtualenv:

  • BeautifulSoup-3.1.0.1
  • Django-1.2.1
  • PIL
  • mx
  • openid
  • psycopg2-2.0.7

That’s about it except for infrastructure:

  • easy-install
  • pip-0.8
  • setuptools-0.6c8

Well I suppose I should have started by upgrading byteflow, I’ll have to try that another time. Maybe some of my changes have been fixed in upstream already. However I did quickly note that the byteflow install page still says it requires django 1.0.