remove magic

[amitu]

We have a bunch of thing that works, and a bunch of thing that kind of does not. For 1.0 release lets remove all magic.

What is importd?

Its a way to django projects, with less fuss. It has a settings framework, and it encourages sane and useful configuration for teams, like using envdir.

What we should keep

• @d("/") decorator for views
• settings framework
• single file setup.
• dj_database_url
• smart return (how to do this without auto adjusting middlewares?)
• auto wsgi setup
• auto APP_DIR (call it PROJ_DIR?) and d.dotslash()
• secret.txt support (optionally read it from ENV?)
• auto set template dirs
• auto set static dir
• auto set DATABASES
• auto set TEMPLATE_DEBUG to DEBUG
• auto set MANAGERS to ADMINS
• auto import .views and .admin etc for each app

What we should discard

• modifying INSTALLED_APPS etc beyond what is done by settings framework (debug: and prod: prefix handling)
• auto configuration of admin
• werkzeug, django_jinja, django_extensions
• d.get_object_or_404 etc (i have never used them personally)

Lets also deprecate < 1.8 in 1.0 release so we have less mess.

[ghost]

Nice ideas Amitu ❕

I been thinking of secret.txt support (optionally read it from ENV?),

I think that should be a JSON file, because we all know how the structure of a JSON file is without reading any specific Documentation, but when people see a *.txt you dont know what to put there ❔

To read from ENV should be a nice addition, but put passwords on ENV is widely used ❔

Lets also deprecate < 1.8 in 1.0 release so we have less mess. Im so happy with this ❕

Have you seen that Coffin becomes only a pair of template tags since Django now supports Jinja2,
so I suggest removing Coffin integration by default, since Coffin itself recommends doing so, or at least explain what I said.

I would say try to improve and update the Documentation ❔

Upload the new version to PyPI of course ❕

[ghost]

• Some of this changes are now on Master.
• All Tests passing, if you run it manually, even if Travis CI gets confused with Python2/Python3.
• Secret Key improved, optionally read it from ENV.
• werkzeug, django_jinja, django_extensions, coffin, etc etc all Clean Up.
• Working with Django 1.9

😸

[amitu]

Nice work man :-) Looking forward to rest of it :-)

[ghost]

With modern Djangos:

• d.models is broken.
• /admin/ is broken.
• django-debug-toolbar is broken.
• django-debug-toolbar itself seems unmaintained(?).
• fhurl is broken.
• I want to drop mandatory fhurl.