On 1/8/06, Joseph Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's a status update on moving dango.contib.core/auth into django.contirb:
>
> * Move sessions from core to django.contrib.sessions (and change dependencies)
> Done.
>
> * Move sites from core to django.contrib.sites (and change dependencies)
> Done.

Excellent! Thanks for your work on this. Much appreciated.

> * Move auth to django.contrib.admin (and change dependencies)
>
> Done. Earlier in this thread, Ian Holsman requested that auth should
> be further split into authentication and authorization. Personally, I
> don't see a need to do this until support for LDAP, ACL's, or whatever
> is added. Comments?

No need to split it into authentication and authorization at this point.

> * Remove Package model (and dependencies on it)
> Ian Holsman still uses this. I'm things we may want to just change
> this to App or Application instead of Package. I can see how it
> *would* be useful, although I haven't used it myself. I'll defer to
> Adrian and Jacob on this.
>
> * Move contenttypes to django.contrib.contenttypes (and change dependencies)
> If Package stays, then should packages and contenttypes both go into
> separate apps?

The package model is messy, and I see no reason for it to stick around
in the long term, but fixing that is also messy. :-(  So, let's move
packages and contenttypes into a single "django.contrib.contenttypes"
app, and plan to remove packages down the road.

Adrian

--
Adrian Holovaty
holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org

Reply via email to