Proposal: Permit __file__-less migrations packages

mmitter can review and merge the PR. Best, William Schwartz -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Proposal: Permit __file__-less migrations packages

o support migrations in namespace packages -- > other than a distaste for blank __init__.py files. I can't imagine you > actually want to split one app's migrations into several separate file > system directories, do you? > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 15:58, William Schwartz wrote:

Re: Proposal: Permit __file__-less migrations packages

I now see that my original post was too vague. I will more thoroughly explain myself below, including the actual patch (because it's that short!). *My proposal will not change Django's behavior at all for anyone not using "freezers" *such as PyOxidizer, cx_Freeze, Nuitka, PyInstaller, and the l

Re: Proposal: Permit __file__-less migrations packages

Mariusz, Thanks for your response! *> I have the impression that more changes are needed to support "freezers" Are we sure this is the only change that is needed?* Django will indeed require changes beyond today's proposal for full freezer support. I am pursuing an incremental approach her

Re: Proposal: Permit __file__-less migrations packages

further. Getting this merged in time for Django 3.2 would be a huge relief! On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 4:27:53 PM UTC-6 William Schwartz wrote: > Mariusz, > > Thanks for your response! > > *> I have the impression that more changes are needed to support > "freeze

Re: Proposal: Drop dependency on pytz in favor of zoneinfo

Just wanted to chime in with a +1 from a user in favor of moving away from pytz. Doing so will be very helpful for frozen Python environments: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pytz/+bug/1834363 On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 2:43:01 AM UTC-6 Aymeric Augustin wrote: > Hi Carlton, > > IIUC-at-first-pass

PR review request

Django committers, The docs recommend posting here if a pull request hasn't seen any action in awhile—I'm sorry if this nudge is premature! There are a couple of PRs I'd love to get merged into 3.2 before the