Hello, in Debian we recently had a discussion about the package name we use for Django applications/extensions, it's usually python-django-<foo>. But the generic naming policy we have for all Python modules implies that this package would provide a "django_foo" Python module and this is not always the case.
That said we do believe that it is a sort of best-practice and that as such it should be documented somewhere in the Django documentation. See the thread on the Debian side here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2016/11/threads.html#00082 In general, the python module name should match the name on pypi (except for conversion between "-" and "_") and it should be prefixed with "django_" to make it clear that this module is for use within the Django framework. Would you agree to add this recommendation somewhere in the official Django doc? Looking at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/reusable-apps/ it already recommends a "django-" prefix, so the only missing recommendation is really that the "polls" module should be renamed into "django_polls" when included in a PyPi package to avoid namespace pollution and have a direct match between the package name and the module name. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Writer/Consultant ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20161207103930.4idy6pqh3i2iw2xa%40home.ouaza.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
