Sorry all, disregard my previous email, I misread one thing and completely missed Wim's original message.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Matt Pegler <peg...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the project I am working on, we solved this by making a custom > auth backend that checks the username against the email column. We've > found it to be a nice clean solution to wanting to use email addresses > instead of usernames. > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Clay McClure <c...@daemons.net> 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. >> 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. -- 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.
