#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 carljm):
Hi Russ - I'm not convinced that we should try to use a settings file
marker of any kind for that upgrade-checks purpose, because you still end
up with too many false positives ("yes, my project settings were initially
generated on 1.5, and yes I'm running 1.6, and yes I don't have
TEST_RUNNER set, and yes, my tests are still just fine, thanks for
asking"). My proposal here was really geared towards "possibly
informational for readers, but not intended for machine parsing at all" --
if we're going to bother with machine parsing a comment, why not just make
it a setting?
With the sort of "generated by" comment I'm suggesting here, I'd expect at
least advanced users - myself included - to just remove it once they go
through their settings file and edit it sufficiently that it's now more
"written by me" than "generated by Django". So I wouldn't consider it
something whose presence Django should rely on.
(It's somewhat off-topic for this ticket, but my current feeling about
upgrade checks is that we just simply shouldn't add them at all. People
who upgrade without bothering to even read the backwards-incompatible-
changes section of the release notes make their own bed, they can lie in
it. Checks should only be loud about things that we can confidently say
are a configuration problem given what we know about the current state,
not what we try to infer about whether they might have recently upgraded.)
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