#18296: Make creating apps inside project folder more intuitive with manage.py
startapp command
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Reporter: lgp171188@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Core (Management commands) | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Keywords: manage.py,
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | startapp
Easy pickings: 1 | Has patch: 0
| UI/UX: 0
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The structure of the project created by 'django-admin.py startproject' has
changed from Django 1.4. The 'manage.py' file is at the same level where
the project folder containing settings.py, urls.py is present. In order to
create an app within the project as was possible with Django < 1.4, the
command to be used is 'python manage.py startapp <app name> <destination
folder which is optional>. So if I execute the command "python manage.py
startapp myapp myproject", there is an error that says "Error: <full
path>/<project name>/<project name>/__init__.py already exists, overlaying
a project or app into an existing directory won't replace conflicting
files". The command actually expects an empty directory having the name of
the app inside the project directory to work correctly. So the user has to
create that directory and then create the app. This isn't very intuitive
and django should create the app directory if it doesn't exist and then
create the app to show the same behaviour as the previous versions.
One other way to work around this behaviour is to change to the project
directory and then execute python ../manage.py startapp appname.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18296>
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