I am working on a better proposal. I will post it here as soo as I can.

On Friday, March 23, 2012, Alex Ogier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: Facebook integration. If you want your app to go viral at all, then
requiring Facebook permissions the moment someone hits your site is going
to put a damper on things. Much better to have it only for actions that
require identity, such as adding a recipe or recommending recipes or
whatever.
> Anyways, that's not actually the main point of the discussion. I think
having a field that encompasses some collection is pretty cool. I have
personally made several models in my time that were never intended to be
queried individually, but rather just had a single foreign key to a parent
model and behaved like a bag of values. The code to manipulate them ends up
everywhere: contrib.admin needs StackedInlines, forms need InlineFieldsets,
etc. even though the model is really just there to match relational
databases' notions about how data is represented. A semantic collection
that boils down to an auto-generated table would be very cool; I picture it
working something like ManyToManyFields do. The support is already in
django core for tables that serve as auto-generated intermediaries.
> Once you have semantic collections as fields, all sorts of things are
possible. contrib.admin can provide inlines for free. ModelForms can
provide inlines for free. Also, the non-relational fork of Django might be
able to take advantage of them.
> I second Russell's request for a better description of what you are
proposing exactly, because the concept I constructed for myself doesn't
necessarily match your conception.
> -Alex Ogier
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