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Is South the best tool to use when doing database migrations in Django?

8th February 2011

My answer to Is South the best tool to use when doing database migrations in Django? on Quora

Yes. And I say that as an author of another Django migrations tool (dmigrations) which offered a small subset of South’s current functionality.

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