There's nothing wrong with parceling out models across different apps.
And unless you're planning on distributing each app separately, don't
worry about cross-app dependencies.
In this case, I'd encourage you to--since you'll probably want to do
more than just book-related stuff with your people. (The same could be
said about the books.)
Another reason to have 2 apps for these models is overall growth of
models.py. The more code that's there, the harder it becomes to edit.
(I'm in the process of parceling out a bunch of models myself. Don't
give yourself that headache!)
E
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm working on a project which for the purposes of this conversation
> we could say is about authors writing and sharing books.
>
> My tendency is to want to make an app called "people" and an app
> called "books," as these are two different models in my mind. A
> person has certain attributes which would be defined in the "person"
> model, and the book has certain attributes which would be defined in
> the "book" model.
>
> For some reason it's weirding me out to put these in the same app. I
> think because seeing tables like people_book or books_person doesn't
> feel right. I imagine something more like:
>
> books_book
> books_genre
> people_person
> people_group
> people_person_contacts
>
> But I need to make the link between the author (person) and the book.
> In the django docs I see that you can easily make a foreign key by
> referencing the model:
>
> manufacturer = models.ForeignKey('production.Manufacturer')
>
> ...but it feels like maybe stepping outside the "django way."
>
> I know there's no definitive answer, but at what point do you
> typically decide that something belongs in it's own app? Is it
> typical to dump everything into a single app?
> >
>
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