gtaylor convinced me to add migrations to the Evennia repo. This means that game/migrate.py is no more. The migrations will help you to adjust your database when Evennia releases a new database change, no need to drop the database or manually adjust tables. To make use of our schema migrations, you need to have Django-South installed.

To convert to django-south operations, easiest is if you are willing to drop your old database (e.g. delete evennia.db if you use default sqlite3). Then do: "game/manage.py syncdb" followed by "game/manage.py migrate". That should do it. If you ever deletes your database, just rerun those two commands.

If you want to convert an existing database, do
game/manage.py convert_to_south comms
game/manage.py convert_to_south config
game/manage.py convert_to_south help
game/manage.py convert_to_south objects
game/manage.py convert_to_south players
game/manage.py convert_to_south scripts


In the future, you will then be able to do ./manage.py migrate when we tell you the schema has changed.

src/help/migrations/0001_initial.py

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+# encoding: utf-8
+import datetime
+from south.db import db
+from south.v2 import SchemaMigration
+from django.db import models
+
+class Migration(SchemaMigration):
+
+    def forwards(self, orm):
+        
+        # Adding model 'HelpEntry'
+        db.create_table('help_helpentry', (
+            ('id', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.AutoField')(primary_key=True)),
+            ('db_key', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.CharField')(unique=True, max_length=255)),
+            ('db_help_category', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.CharField')(default='General', max_length=255)),
+            ('db_entrytext', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.TextField')(blank=True)),
+            ('db_permissions', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.CharField')(max_length=255, blank=True)),
+            ('db_lock_storage', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.TextField')(blank=True)),
+            ('db_staff_only', self.gf('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField')(default=False)),
+        ))
+        db.send_create_signal('help', ['HelpEntry'])
+
+
+    def backwards(self, orm):
+        
+        # Deleting model 'HelpEntry'
+        db.delete_table('help_helpentry')
+
+
+    models = {
+        'help.helpentry': {
+            'Meta': {'object_name': 'HelpEntry'},
+            'db_entrytext': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'blank': 'True'}),
+            'db_help_category': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'default': "'General'", 'max_length': '255'}),
+            'db_key': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'unique': 'True', 'max_length': '255'}),
+            'db_lock_storage': ('django.db.models.fields.TextField', [], {'blank': 'True'}),
+            'db_permissions': ('django.db.models.fields.CharField', [], {'max_length': '255', 'blank': 'True'}),
+            'db_staff_only': ('django.db.models.fields.BooleanField', [], {'default': 'False'}),
+            'id': ('django.db.models.fields.AutoField', [], {'primary_key': 'True'})
+        }
+    }
+
+    complete_apps = ['help']