Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-10 Thread Amit Upadhyay
On 5/10/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exactly. That's precisely what I pointed out in the (now closed)ticket for this feature request. Settings files are pure Python for areason -- this sort of flexibility.Let's move onto more pressing improvements to the framework, shall we? It

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/9/06, DavidA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't you just accomplish the same goal by adding a couple of lines to > your settings file? Assuming you had an environ variable DSN set like > this: > [...] > I guess it just seems like its easy enought to do in Python directly, > why would you

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread James Bennett
On 5/9/06, pbx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's another way to look at it, given that we are still at 0.91+: > Besides inertia, what are the arguments in favor of the system Django > currently uses? The only person I've seen address this is Jacob, who > correctly noted in the ticket comments

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread pbx
Here's another way to look at it, given that we are still at 0.91+: Besides inertia, what are the arguments in favor of the system Django currently uses? The only person I've seen address this is Jacob, who correctly noted in the ticket comments that some beginners would find the separate

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread DavidA
Can't you just accomplish the same goal by adding a couple of lines to your settings file? Assuming you had an environ variable DSN set like this: DSN=ENGINE=mysql;NAME=data;USER=root;PASSWORD=redpill;HOST=localhost then add: import os dsn = dict([kv.split('=') for kv in

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Kumar McMillan
this is all hypothetical since I haven't migrated any apps yet, but why would we want to have separate settings files if only the database config would change? To answer your question: I would ideally want to support these scenarios : 1. developer running app on local machine 2. developer

Re: DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/9/06, Kumar McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, at my company we use sandboxed > postgres (every user has his own database, named $USER) on our main > dev server for better isolation. This means we pretty much have to set > database settings as envionment variables. Sorry, I'm not

DSN useful for database settings?

2006-05-09 Thread Kumar McMillan
How many Django'ers out there typically use DSNs for their web apps? How are you currently working around Django's lack of DSN support? I'm still new to Django, looking to migrate some existing apps to Django plus start new ones, but without DSN support out of the box it's almost a show stopper.