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14916	No proper initialization of models/signals/etc....	Pakal	nobody	"
As discussed in http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/825c154c54f79ad9 ,
there is a real problem with the fact that, in production mode (mod_python, mod_wsgi...), no loading of installed applications occurs, contrarily to what we have in django's dev server.

This raises major issues, imo :
- silent errors in the signaling framework : if a module isn't explicitely loaded by a view during request processing, the signal connections it contains will never be performed, so it makes the whole signaling framework quite broken.
- no proper place to put startup code : a quick google search shows that people are multiplying awkward constructs to initialize their application, by putting code in settings.py (which is often loaded several times => problems), in urls.py (that's NOT the point of this module), in temporary (""one-shot"") middlewares...

Wouldn't it be quite handier to give each application a chance to initialize at server (or rather, worker process) startup, by loading all models.py, or maybe better, all __init__.py from INSTALLED_APPS ?

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