> Personally I wonder if this is due to a conception that the *project* > is somehow the deliverable;
I think James touches here on one of the key factors in this whole issue. If I have a project that I'm making publicly available, there are many project related settings that need to be configured merely to get the project to work such as middleware, auth backends, template loaders, and installed apps. Similarly, in one my projects, I have dependency-tracking code that dynamically builds the installed_apps setting based on which components are chosen from a list. Since all of these things need to be specified in some form of public/sharable settings file for the project to work, people want to be able to pull these aside and share them. Then there are the other settings which are site/install-specific and people don't want to share them. As Marty acknowledges, publishing projects (not just apps) is not just a freak-one-off sort of thing, but is happening with greater and greater regularity. Much to James's disdain towards focus on projects vs. apps....sorry James :) It's not *hard* to separate out "private" configuration settings from "public" configuration settings. However, it's becoming increasingly common to use Django for sharable-projects rather than just sharable-apps and there's a fairly bright line between "public stuff that's required to get this project working" and "private stuff that pertains to my given configuration". Obstinately refusing to help the user do the right thing throws up needless impediments. Django pushes the developer to do-the-right-thing in so many *other* areas, that this should be facilitated, even if just via a comment in the settings.py directing the user to best-practices (as mentioned by Ned, I believe). -tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
