On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:34:38 PM UTC-4, dstufft wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Ben Slavin wrote: > > Lastly, I haven't seen a path to easily allow third-party apps to > gracefully support both The Old Way and The New Way (1.4 and 1.5). It feels > a bit wrong, but should we be considering the addition of get_user_model > and settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL to 1.4.x that's hardcoded to contrib.auth.User > so third-party apps can rely on the presence of these mechanisms? > > I don't think adding a hardcoded AUTH_USER_MODEL is going to give the > kind of coverage people would want. Likely the best way would be for people > to write a wrapper function around the relevant methods/settings and > include it in their own projects. This sucks for duplication across all > those projects but otherwise it means they'll only be able to support the > latest 1.4.x and 1.5+. Likely to be a better user compatibility story by > handling the fallback on a per app basis (Django could provide examples > though). >
I agree that this does limit things to only 1.4.X and 1.5+, but that seems acceptable. I did consider the possibility of not adding this support layer, but after consideration still felt it will justify the effort. Those apps that require (or choose to offer) a deeper stack of version support can choose to do so, but the pragmatism of making the common case easy (and removing the need for cross-project duplication) seems to justify the unified interface. Not speaking as a matter of official policy, but running the latest micro version of the previous minor version seems a reasonable requirement for third-party app developers to impose. - Ben -- 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/-/dxid-t-e9LUJ. 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.
