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I will second this. What's wrong with South, currently?

By the way, this is the first Kickstarter project I've considered funding.

South can often fail for reasons that are surprisingly silly, at least in my experience. Though it's still pretty useful compared to having nothing.

Is that with MySQL? I've used it for scores of projects, always with Postgres, and it's never failed me, even if it's been a bit slow when there are lots of rows in play (which isn't really South's fault)

Yeah, with MySQL. You've probably got a pretty good point there. If I were to start a site myself one of the first things I'd do is never use MySQL, though it does improve ever so slowly.

In the latest version(beta?) you can actually have a column with 'default current_timestamp' and a column with 'on update current_timestamp' in the same table after years of only being able to have 1 column per table auto that way.

I don't remember the details, but I think I had to fill a column with zeros all the way down just to drop the whole column in the migration anyway or something along those lines.

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