Well the docs say that you COULD set it in order to avoid tedious typing. But since I was just doing a test I wouldn't bother to do that.
The issue seems to be that django-admin isn't recognizing a settings passed in as : --setting=myproject.settings Now I'm doing this again with a new project. I have PYTHON_PATH, PATH, and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE all set. django-admin is still not finding the correct settings file. Shouldn't a settings.py file be obligatory ? I think it should fail if not found and complain of that, rather than using a default and failing to be able to work with those defaults (which is a more mysterious disconnected error message). thanks
