On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Carl Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 09/05/2014 10:46 AM, Tim Graham wrote: >> > In the meantime, shall we abandon the idea of organizing settings in >> > dictionaries for "purity"? May we add new settings as described here: >> > https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/22734#comment:22 >> >> IMO, yes. >> >> When we already have a subsystem, like email, which is configured via >> global settings, and it really needs a new configuration knob (we should >> continue to be generally conservative in making that assessment), I see >> very little downside to a new setting. If there's to be a new knob, best >> to put it in the same place as the existing knobs for that component. >> > > +1. If we actually need a new email setting for timeouts, I have no > objection to adding EMAIL_TIMEOUT. > I'd like to see the email settings get moved into a dictionary so that I can use a single environment variable to configure it very easily, ala dj-database-url. There's dj-email-url right now, but it requires 7 lines to configure unless I want to restore to using vars() to update them all at once. There should be a way to set this one logical setting (based on the environment variable) without being implicit (using var().update) or spending 7 lines on something this stupidly simple. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CABpHFHQ2Hn7JPqh7F9rzXz6CA1yr1hG3Bc1Zi%2BGXDkLzsBdOTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
