Nothing about this proposal prevents this. And in that case, no those 2 apps would not be able to be used together. But this is hardly the first time that 2 apps cannot be used together. because of choices made like that on the app owner.
On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Harris Lapiroff wrote: > I very much share Tai's concerns about the swappable user model introducing > incompatibilities. Imagine two apps, each of which requires an "age" > attribute on the user model. But suppose one of those apps expects age to be > the number of years since that user's birth and one of those apps expects the > age to be the number of years since the user registered for the website. The > user model must provide the same attribute to both apps, but it is supposed > to have a different value for each app. A developer will be unable to use > these two apps together without patching one of them. > > A bit of a contrived example, maybe, but I can imagine this > same-name-different-purpose issue coming up over and over again, making > otherwise pluggable apps incompatible with each other. > > I think we should go with a pared down user model and allow each app to > manage whatever data it needs on each user through profiles and signals. > Developers will end up with some data duplication, but I think that is > preferable to confusion about the source and purpose of data. Profiles are > essentially a way for each app to namespace its own data and I think that's a > good thing. > > Harris > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/p4jhylEp3x8J. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
