I could not disagree with this more. I very much want to subclass User as I have more than one kind of user and each has a different type of profile.
You have the option of changing the user model. Copy it to your local app and change it. Until we get proper inheritence ( a huge flaw in django ) Joes method works great. -v On 8/9/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/9/06, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know this is a bit "hackish", but it will work until model > > inheritance is straightened out. > > What people actually want is not "a subclass of User that has extra > fields"; what people actually want is "User with extra fields". > There's a big important difference there, because the auth system uses > django.contrib.auth.models.User, and there is absolutely no way to > make it use some other model -- even if that model is a subclass of > User -- instead. We used to have 'replaces_module', but that was ugly > and went away a long time ago and, God willing, will never come back. > > So despite popular misconception, model inheritance does not and will > not provide any easier/better/more efficient way to extend the User > model (as I noted in my blog entry about extending User). The fact > that AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE and get_profile() were around when > subclassing worked in the 0.90 and 0.91 releases should indicate that > fact; building a separate model related to User is and probably always > will be the best way to extend it. > > -- > "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." > -- George Carlin > > > > -- Most People are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived a their opinions as the result of their own thinking – and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority -- Eric Fromm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
