#23899: A new field/doc note in the settings.py to denote django version
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Reporter: atmb4u | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Core (Other) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: settings.py, django | Triage Stage: Accepted
version | Needs documentation: 0
Has patch: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 1 |
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Comment (by freakboy3742):
This would also be useful for upgrade checks. At present, when we do
version change checks (e.g., checks related to TEST_RUNNER) we have to
guess whether the project is "1.5 and has been upgraded" or "1.6 with a
specific collection of settings". There are tickets reporting false
positives related to these checks, which is to be expected, because things
like "User has TEMPLATE_DIRS set" aren't a reliable way to check that
you're running a particular Django version.
Having a setting (or, as Carl suggests, a "meta" setting that is actually
a comment) that represents "This project configuration is known to be
correct for version X" would be very helpful for this purpose. The key
thing here is that it isn't just a "Generated on v1.N" setting, because
you can update the settings over time and know that the settings file is
"good" for v1.(N+1). Being easily machine parseable is also important.
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