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| author | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2015-09-21 22:42:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org> | 2015-09-22 08:32:39 +0200 |
| commit | 76bf4bc1117524eb1305395451455b372e518c91 (patch) | |
| tree | 391dcd6b60f3bb5dccf53330133dfd13b00c0cb6 /docs | |
| parent | 528c1330f85914eb6b3f253932172695871f7905 (diff) | |
[1.8.x] Recommended against default_app_config.
Most likely this is a losing fight -- people seem to love this small
convention -- but at least the reasons for avoiding it will be
documented.
Refs #25356.
Backport of 94a36cf from master
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/applications.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/applications.txt b/docs/ref/applications.txt index 4870e74577..a51b918e66 100644 --- a/docs/ref/applications.txt +++ b/docs/ref/applications.txt @@ -59,6 +59,14 @@ subclass for that application. If there is no ``default_app_config``, Django uses the base :class:`~django.apps.AppConfig` class. +``default_app_config`` allows applications that predate Django 1.7 such as +``django.contrib.admin`` to opt-in to :class:`~django.apps.AppConfig` features +without requiring users to update their :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`. + +New applications should avoid ``default_app_config``. Instead they should +require the dotted path to the appropriate :class:`~django.apps.AppConfig` +subclass to be configured explicitly in :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS`. + For application authors ----------------------- |