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The way I understood it this integrates a number of common elements that go into makeing a CMS in to one package.

I'm searching around today to see how much of the 'drupal' functionality that we have used for the last 2 years or so can be achieved with django.

Unfortunately their wiki is down... I was hoping somebody here already has experience with this package.

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Drupal's all about the hook system and modular architecture, and to recreate it in Django along with even half of the good stuff in contrib would take a very long time.

More importanly, Django will need to make progress in schema evolution to allow for easy DB upgrades between versions. This is the area where Django lacks most right now.

You mean something like South (http://south.aeracode.org/)? Did you have any problems using it or did you prefer something else?

It would be nice to see something like this incorporated into Django itself, but I guess you can't expect it to bake you a cake, manage your finances and provide you with an easy way to build websites all in one single package. But a man can dream.

Schema-migration utilities are in a phase where there's some competition going on and features and support cross-pollinating; sooner or later there'll be a clear winner and it'll be time to talk about bundling with Django itself, but for now it's best to let the community evolve things, since that'll develop useful things much more quickly than stuffing something prematurely into django.contrib.

I've started regulary using django-evolution (http://code.google.com/p/django-evolution/) on my projects. Worked out fine up until now.

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