= Guidelines for writing, distributing and using Django applications =



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= Guidelines for reusable application authors =



 * '''namespace''': apps should live in `django.apps`, i.e. if your app is named `frobnicate`, your code should be in `django.apps.frobnicate`

  * FIXME alternative: require use of namespace packages, see http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#namespace-packages , review how Zope does it

 * FIXME '''Django version''': somehow the Django version used has to be conveyed (`django1.0-comments`?), again Zope app versioning should help

 * '''publishing''': apps should be packaged with `setuptools` and published in the [http://pypi.python.org/pypi Python Package Index], under trove category `Framework :: Django`

 * '''dependencies''': ordinary `setuptools` dependency handling



= Package index =



Additionally to the PyPi index, a separate indexing service with ratings, groupings and whatnot would be useful. [http://djangoplugables.com Django Pluggables] is a nice start.