diff options
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 ----------------------- |