On Sep 10, 9:18 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, please, no! Registration is a very fragile process. It simply > doesn't work very well. It's a bit disappointing that it's the way we > have to do things that way in places in Django and if we can avoid it > elsewhere that'd be nice.
I was hoping we could get a discussion going about this at DjangoCon. Registration is a pattern that comes up /all the time/ in Django: * Registering models with the admin * Registering models with databrowse * Registering template tags * Registering custom management commands It's also present in popular party apps: * django-tagging and django-mptt both register models (though both feel like they should really be some kind of mixin) We'll also need it in the near future for a couple of in-development features: * Registering custom panels with the Django debugging toolbar * Registering new benchmarks with the metronome profiling tool * Registering get_connection overrides in the above multi-db proposal Finally, we've been needing to solve it for projects at work: we have a CMS that exposes a concept of "custom rows" which can be provided by applications and dropped in to various places around the site. Guess what: the rows need to be registered! There MUST be a good way of doing this. zope.interface? setuptools entry points? We really, really need to solve this for Django. If we had a single, supported and documented way of registering things it would open up a huge amount of potential for plugin-style extension points and give us a proper solution to a problem we are solving in a bunch of different ways at the moment. Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
