Django swappable auth.User models landed in trunk

https://github.com/django/django/commit/70a0de37d132e5f1514fb939875f69649f103124

by streeter • 14 years ago

7 3 14 years ago

condiment• 14 years ago

The documentation for the feature is near the bottom of the commit.

This is a really great addition. Every non-trivial Django project I've ever worked on has required extending the user model using both the bolted-on AUTH_USER_PROFILE pattern and hacked together middleware in order to support email-based logins.

While there's a bit of possible backwards-incompatibility with my hacks, it looks like this change addresses both pain points.

jspiral• 14 years ago

Yup, then some south hack to make usernames longer than 30 characters...

kmfrk• 14 years ago

It looks like the good stuff is from here: https://github.com/django/django/commit/70a0de37d132e5f1514f....

It's been weird to get into Django and see hacky solutions like the UserProfile/get_profile() stuff (and django-registration and South being required for most purposes), and it's great to see this make it into Django.

Django swappable auth.User models landed in trunk

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