Compatibility update for Django 1.11

[rnegron]

WIP Django 1.11 update (#71)

I got notaso running on Django 1.11 on my local machine using docker-compose up. The hardest part of the process was finding the right package compatibility. I manually tested the "core" features: Creating model instances from the Admin site and from the frontend, site navigation and hyperlinks, static file serving, account registration and login/logout.

Notable changes made to the codebase:

• Removed django.conf.urls.patterns imports

• Removed admin.autodiscover() from root urlconf

• Removed {% load url from future %} from all templates that had it

• Removed south from INSTALLED_APPS

• Removed 'allauth.account.context_processors.account' and 'allauth.socialaccount.context_processors.socialaccount' from TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

• Changed urlpatterns on all apps to lists of django.conf.urls.url() instances

• Changed ACCOUNT_USER_MODEL_USERNAME_FIELD in settings from 'email' to None

• Migrated template settings to the new TEMPLATE settings format

• Changed rest_framework_swagger url imports method

• Fixed small typo in universities.models

• Added 'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware' to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

• Added adminer to docker-compose.yml

• Modified docker-entrypoint.sh

  • Replaced syncdb with makemigrations and migrate
  • Added a collectstatic step before migrations

• Modified README.md to reflect new database migration commands

• Updated migration files to new ones created from the makemigrations command

Notable Package changes

• Updated Django from 1.6.5 to 1.11.5

• Updated djangorestframework package from 3.2.5 to 3.6.3 (did not update further due to compatability issues)

• Updated many other django related packages

• Changed psycopg2 package to psycopg2-binary

• Removed argparse package

• Removed South package

Notes

List of incompatabilities and deprecations from Django 1.7 to Django 1.11:

• Django 1.7
• Django 1.8
• Django 1.9
• Django 1.10
• Django 1.11

[jpadilla]

@rnegron I was not expecting this at all, thank you! Will test it out now. Hopefully we can make it to v2.* 😄!

[jpadilla]

We should probably be able to use django.contrib.postgres.search to get rid of djorm_pgfulltext

[rnegron]

Yes, Django 2 compatibility shouldn't be too hard to accomplish! I was thinking that getting notaso running on 1.11 would make it easier to work on important bug fixes and other stuff (i.e. testing) without worrying about working on an unsupported platform.

I'm not too familiar with postgres features, but I'll take a look soon and report back.

[jpadilla]

@rnegron made some improvements in #101. Check them out if you like.