#25079: Warn if both TEMPLATES and TEMPLATE_DIRS are defined
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Reporter: danielr | Owner: nobody
Type: Cleanup/optimization | Status: new
Component: Template system | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Since the addition of the pluggable template backends, the `TEMPLATE_DIRS`
setting has been deprecated in favour of the `TEMPLATES` list of dicts. If
`TEMPLATES` is not defined, it will be constructed using the value of
`TEMPLATE_DIRS`.
However, `TEMPLATES` is created automatically by the default project
template; and in this case Django does not use the value in
`TEMPLATE_DIRS`. This means that users following pre-1.8 tutorials (for
example, the very popular Tango with Django) will be instructed to add
`TEMPLATE_DIRS` to a settings file that ignores that value, and then will
be surprised that their templates are not found. This has hit quite a few
users on StackOverflow, for example:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31108314/templatedoesnotexist-error-in-
django/31109213
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30844500/django-templatedoesnotexist-
error-on-windows-machine
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30740700/django-templatedoesnotexist-
at-home-html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26176267/django-template-loader-cant-
find-template/30588425#30588425
and so on.
Django should explicitly warn in this case, telling users to move their
directories settings to `TEMPLATES`.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25079>
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