On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 23:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hmm... if we do it, this feels like something that should be kept > > separate from the standard manage.py; I can certainly see it being an > > immense help to developers who are just starting to work with Django, > > but I can also see more experienced users saying "I just want a blank > > app, without having to answer all these questions at the prompt". > > > > So maybe this could work more as an introductory tool, so that once a > > developers are familiar enough with Django to make the choice, they > > can decide to keep using it or switch to the standard manage.py app > > skeleton. > > > > -- > > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of > > correct." > > Why not something like a "python manage.py startapp verbose"?
I'm with James on this one: I think it's probably a fairly useful tool to have, but it's not something that's necessarily appropriate for the core manage.py program. The debate isn't about what words to use to invoke it -- it's about whether having that functionality in the code is a good idea. The reasoning is that whilst it's not impossible to add this type of functionality, now we suddenly have a few dozen or a hundred more lines of code that need to be maintained for something that isn't really core functionality. It would be very easy to write a "getting started wizard" that leverages a lot of the stuff already inside manage.py. Have a look at the code there. You can see it splits up most of the functionality into separate functions (there's a command line arg to function mapping towards the bottom of the file that does just that). So a third-party application that wants to create some directories, fill in a bunch of stuff and provide the whole "getting started" framework skeleton doesn't have to replicate any of the existing work. Import django.core.management and call out to that. The extra stuff can then be kept separate and both sides remain maintainable. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
