Drop support for Django before version 1.8

.travis.yml

@@ -8,16 +8,15 @@ notifications:
 
 language: python
 
+sudo: false
+
 env:
   global:
     - CFLAGS="-O0"
   matrix:
     - TOXENV=flake8
-    - TOXENV=py27-1.4
-    - TOXENV=py27-1.7
     - TOXENV=py27-1.8
     - TOXENV=py27-1.9
-    - TOXENV=py32-1.7
     - TOXENV=py32-1.8
     - TOXENV=py34-1.9
 
@@ -28,11 +27,7 @@ matrix:
 
 install:
   - pip install tox
-  - 'if [ $TOXENV != "flake8" ]; then .travis/install; fi'
-  - 'if [ $TOXENV == "py27-1.4" ]; then pip install "Django>=1.4,<1.5"; fi'
-  - 'if [ $TOXENV == "py27-1.4" ]; then pip install -e .; fi'
 before_script:
   - 'if [ $TOXENV != "flake8" ]; then .travis/before_script; fi'
 script:
-  - 'if [ $TOXENV == "py27-1.4" ]; then python -Wall manage.py test mapit mapit_gb; fi'
-  - 'if [ $TOXENV != "py27-1.4" ]; then tox; fi'
+  - tox

.travis/before_script

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Once 1.4 support is no longer needed, we can use this:
-# createdb -U postgres mapit
-# psql -U postgres -d mapit -c 'create extension postgis;'
-createdb -U postgres -T template_postgis mapit
+createdb -U postgres mapit
+psql -U postgres -d mapit -c 'create extension postgis;'
 
 echo 'MAPIT_DB_NAME: mapit' > conf/general.yml
 echo 'MAPIT_DB_USER: postgres' >> conf/general.yml

CHANGES.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+master
+    * Drop support for Django versions before 1.8. #209
+    * MapIt Global specific:
+        Fix issue parsing KML in python2 prior to 2.7.4. #206
+
 v1.4, 2015-09-18
     * Mark all strings for translation. #185
     * Italian translation and base templates. #185

conf/general.yml-example

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ AREA_SRID: 27700
 # Set this to a random string -- the longer, the better.
 DJANGO_SECRET_KEY: 'gu^&xc)hoibh3x&s+9009jbn4d$!nq0lz+syx-^x8%z24!kfs4'
 
-# Mapped to Django's DEBUG and TEMPLATE_DEBUG settings. Optional, defaults to True.
+# Mapped to Django's DEBUG setting. Optional, defaults to True.
 DEBUG: True
 
 # A GA code

mapit/middleware/view_error.py

@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # and output it as either HTML or JSON appropriately
 
 from django import http
+from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from mapit.shortcuts import output_json
-from mapit.djangopatch import render_to_string
 
 
 class ViewException(Exception):

mapit/migrations/__init__.py

@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Thanks to http://treyhunner.com/2014/03/migrating-to-django-1-dot-7/
-
-Django migrations for mapit
-
-This package does not contain South migrations.  South migrations can be found
-in the ``south_migrations`` package.
-"""
-
-SOUTH_ERROR_MESSAGE = """\n
-For South support, make sure you have South 1.0 installed, or
-customize the SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES setting like so:
-
-    SOUTH_MIGRATION_MODULES = {
-        'mapit': 'mapit.south_migrations',
-    }
-"""
-
-# Ensure the user is not using Django 1.6 or below with South
-try:
-    from django.db import migrations  # noqa
-except ImportError:
-    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
-    raise ImproperlyConfigured(SOUTH_ERROR_MESSAGE)