Hi. Thanks to everyone again for your replies. I've just been wondering,
are there any reasons not to subclass the User class to add extra fields to
a custom "User", versus the Foreign key method?
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:13:34 PM UTC-4, Tundebabzy wrote:
>
> No you won't be smitten.
>
> As for isolating your edited django, you can do that but then you
> would have to be responsible for improving the code base by yourself.
> Also, your edit might inadvertently break django or introduce bugs
> that you might find difficult to trace and solve or that might change
> some of the logic required to make django work.
>
> On 9/27/12, Chris Pagnutti <chris.p...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
> > Hi. First-time poster here. Feel free to point out any rules I'm not
> > following.
> >
> > I've been looking around for how to make the django.contrib.auth User
> > classe's "email" field to be unique and required. There are bunches of
> > ways to do it, but it's just soooo darn easy to go into the source and
> > change how the field is defined.
> > e.g. email = models.EmailField(_('email address'),unique=True)
> >
> > But in my searches, I've read warnings that you should not do this. The
> > reason, if it is given, is that you'll break your app if you update the
> > contrib packages. But what if I work in virtualenvs and just leave the
> > django version and packages intact for that particular app in that
> > particular environment? What are the other practical and philosophical
> > reasons for NOT editing the contrib source? Will I be smitten from the
> > django community if I do so?
> >
> > Thanks to all.
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