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8242	"INSTALLED_APPS with ""foo.*"" not populated consistently"	Jeremy Dunck	Jacob	"On different filesystems, but using the same list of INSTALLED_APPS, the final populated list of INSTALLED_APPS can vary.

os.listdir's return list is arbitrary, so that [http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/conf/__init__.py?rev=7848#L111 the apps] are loaded differently.

The most obvious display of this issue is where foo.* apps are listed in the admin index.  However, applications might also expect to be initialized in a stable order, and Django's globbing currently fails at that.

I think simply sorting the results of listdir would address this.
Obviously, providing consistent tests for this is difficult, but I have observed it in the wild."		closed	Core (Other)	dev		fixed			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0