Start fixing things for django 1.10.

evennia/server/server.py

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class Evennia(object):
         Optimize some SQLite stuff at startup since we
         can't save it to the database.
         """
-        if ((".".join(str(i) for i in django.VERSION) < "1.2" and settings.DATABASE_ENGINE == "sqlite3")
+        if ((".".join(str(i) for i in django.VERSION) < "1.2" and settings.DATABASES.get('default', {}).get('ENGINE') == "sqlite3")
             or (hasattr(settings, 'DATABASES')
                 and settings.DATABASES.get("default", {}).get('ENGINE', None)
                 == 'django.db.backends.sqlite3')):

evennia/typeclasses/models.py

@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ class TypeclassBase(SharedMemoryModelBase):
         # this is a copy of django.db.models.base.__new__
         # with a few lines changed as per
         # https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11560
-        new_class = patched_new(cls, name, bases, attrs)
+        #new_class = patched_new(cls, name, bases, attrs)
+        new_class = super(TypeclassBase, cls).__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)
+        #new_class = patched_new(cls, name, bases, attrs)
 
         # attach signals
         signals.post_save.connect(post_save, sender=new_class)

requirements.txt

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Evennia dependencies, for Linux/Mac platforms
 
-django >= 1.8, < 1.10
+django >= 1.9, < 1.11
 twisted >= 16.0.0
 mock >= 1.0.1
 pillow == 2.9.0