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============ Front Matter ============ Information about the Alembic project. Project Homepage ================ Alembic is hosted on `Bitbucket <http://bitbucket.org>`_ - the lead project page is at https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic. Source code is tracked here using `Git <http://git-scm.com/>`_. .. versionchanged:: 0.6 The source repository was moved from Mercurial to Git. Releases and project status are available on Pypi at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/alembic. The most recent published version of this documentation should be at http://alembic.readthedocs.org/. Project Status ============== Alembic is currently in beta status and is expected to be fairly stable. Users should take care to report bugs and missing features (see :ref:`bugs`) on an as-needed basis. It should be expected that the development version may be required for proper implementation of recently repaired issues in between releases; the latest master is always available at https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/get/master.tar.gz. .. _installation: Installation ============ Install released versions of Alembic from the Python package index with `pip <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_ or a similar tool:: pip install alembic Installation via source distribution is via the ``setup.py`` script:: python setup.py install The install will add the ``alembic`` command to the environment. All operations with Alembic then proceed through the usage of this command. Dependencies ------------ Alembic's install process will ensure that SQLAlchemy_ is installed, in addition to other dependencies. Alembic will work with SQLAlchemy as of version **0.7.3**, however more features are available with newer versions such as the 0.9 or 1.0 series. Alembic supports Python versions 2.6 and above. Community ========= Alembic is developed by `Mike Bayer <http://techspot.zzzeek.org>`_, and is loosely associated with the SQLAlchemy_, `Pylons <http://www.pylonsproject.org>`_, and `Openstack <http://www.openstack.org>`_ projects. User issues, discussion of potential bugs and features should be posted to the Alembic Google Group at `sqlalchemy-alembic <https://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy-alembic>`_. .. _bugs: Bugs ==== Bugs and feature enhancements to Alembic should be reported on the `Bitbucket issue tracker <https://bitbucket.org/zzzeek/alembic/issues?status=new&status=open>`_. .. _SQLAlchemy: http://www.sqlalchemy.org