The major issue is that there is no way to do schema migrations in core (currently). So there's no way to handle increasing the length of the username field.
More comprehensive solutions require more thought to figure out the pluggable User models. On Friday, March 9, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Clay McClure wrote: > "Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid > development and clean, pragmatic design"—unless you want to do something > seemingly simple like using email addresses for authentication, in which case > you need to monkey patch models and forms to get everything working right, > which is neither rapid nor clean. What began as an innocuous feature request > five years ago is now a high-level, general purpose, abstract, seemingly > insurmountable design problem. The core developers are still perfectionists, > but they seem to have forgotten their deadlines. > > Is there not a simple, pragmatic solution (optional and for new > installations—we're not talking about backwards compatibility here) that > could be implemented until the panacea of pluggable User models gets figured > out? Something as simple (albeit ugly) as wrapping new models and forms in: > > if settings.AUTH_EMAIL_AUTHENTICATION: > > Should these things really take five years? What happened to pragmatic? > > Clay > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/KebjFDOOBF4J. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com > (mailto:django-developers@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
