On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:54 PM, burc...@gmail.com <burc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Russell, > > I strongly disagree with your and Adrian vision of whether conventions > are good or not. > But I won't comment that any further. There are your political > decisions, and I have no single bit of control on them. > I know that it's impossible to persuade you, so why should I spend my > time doing this. > > However, you didn't tell anything on the problem that was the main > reason why I wrote this app. > Additive variables. > > DATABASES, DATABASE_ROUTERS, MIDDLEWARE, etc. > Do you think situation will change with them? > > In example, I want few of my apps to work with their own databases. > They need to install their database into DATABASES and their router > into DATABASE_ROUTERS. > > How would you do that?
Like Tom said - you don't solve it by configuring the app. You configure the way a project uses an app, not the way an app should be used in a project. His example for configuring DATABASES is right on the money. As an example of why the 'app configuration' approach fails, consider the case of reusable apps. A reusable app can suggest defaults for settings, but once a reusable app you wrote is in my project, I need to configure it to conform to my local conditions. Your app *cannot* know what database it needs to use when it's in *my* project. That's a project configuration issue for me. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
