On 06/12/2011 03:35 PM, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > I checked the SVN history. This "feature" was never documented, even > before the reorganization at r8506. It appears in > django/conf/__init__.py when magic-removal is merged (r2809). > > We just discussed it on IRC, and the consensus is that it dates back > to before Django was open-sourced. It was probably only used at World > Online. > > In my opinion, it's an anti-feature: 1 - It's un-pythonic: in > essence, it's equivalent to an filesystem-based implementation of > "from <package> import *", which was not rejected in Python for a > good reason [1] 2 - like "from <module> import *", it's not > explicit, 3 - you don't add apps to your settings file every day, so > there's little to gain. > > I think it should be deprecated; since it was never documented, we > could even remove it outright.
I agree with all of this. I would be in favor of simply removing the wildcard feature with a note in the release notes, unless someone pops up to argue that it's more widely-used than we think and it should be deprecated instead, in which case I think a normal deprecation path is a fine alternative. Carl -- 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 django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
