I never really loved them until I started working on a massive Django project with Oracle. South doesn't support Oracle, and now I have to manually tweak tables every time I update a schema.

Since that happened, I fricking love South.

The company I work for just switched _to_ south from a custom migration system and it has been really awesome. It streamlined out development process a bit as well.

So what did you use instead?

Let me just say having migrations is a "good thing".

I know one place that just does SQL stuff by hand when they go to production. Seriously?!

I still used south for migrations I just found that I ended up editing the migration files for every migration.

why? For the data migrations?