An "official" place to put applications

[Marinho Brandão]

Some developers use the project path to put applications in, some others put in a 'apps' folder or something like this.

Would be nice once place to import from applications from, like the following example:

from django.apps import myapp

To turn this possible, I think will be necessary exists a way to 'register' the application with a simple name (or change INSTALLED_APPS to 2-tuples-style).

[Brian Rosner]

This is out of scope for Django. You can accomplish this however you like with the use of PYTHONPATH and/or sys.path. Ask on django-users on some of the best practices others are doing to accomplish something similar.

[Marinho Brandão]

I disagree.

I know the best practices but I wish this idea be availed better because we can gain cohesion and flexibility. An "application registration" would turn possible an applications repository, turning them more plugable than are today.

[Etienne Robillard]

I agree with the idea of picking a standard namespace for user-contributed django apps. Having such a scheme
documented more extensively in django could leads to things like marinho mentioned.

[James Bennett]

This is out of scope for Django; aside from certain minimum necessities like the existence of a models module inside an application, Django does not and will not attempt to dictate where you put your code.

[Etienne Robillard]

Sorry but I don't agree. If we want users to distribute third-party applications on top of django, then why not explaining how
to distribute them using setuptools ?

I dont think this has nothing to do with dictature (really).
It's only being nice to users (developers) wanting to adopt a common standard for sharing contributed apps.

Person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt person doing it. --Chinese Proverb

[Marinho Brandão]

I agree to Erob and I think a common namespace or something kind of solution would be possible to developer put the applications WHEREVER wants. Today, the developer must put all of apps in once place, or create symlinks (Windows doesn't supports) or include miriads of paths to PYTHONPATH.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Hello there,

I don't understand what this is proposing, as it is currently written. For that reason, I'm marking this as "wontfix." If you want to provide a fuller explanation of your idea, please open a new ticket rather than reopening this one.

[James Bennett]

Replying to erob:

Sorry but I don't agree. If we want users to distribute third-party applications on top of django, then why not explaining how
to distribute them using setuptools ?

Isn't it the job of setuptools to document how to use setuptools?

[Marinho Brandão]

Adrian, ok (and I thank for your interest).

I wrote the following task: #6300