Re: Application Name Cannot be the Same as Site Name - is this true?

Thank you. That is exactly what I did in my production environment -
I manually created the application directory.

I used the startapp command on my development box, and thus got the
error message.

Thanks again for clarifying.

On Feb 28, 4:41 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Anthony <alantho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've got my app deployed on my production server where the application
> > name == site name.  (It's running fine.)
>
> > I copied it down to my development machine and tried to set up the
> > same thing ('python manage.py startapp [appname==sitename]'), I got
> > the error message above.
>
> > Did I just do something funny in my production environment that will
> > bring the site down in the future?  It's running fine now, but I'm
> > wondering if I should redo it for safety's sake.
>
> The prohibition on sharing a name between appname and project name is
> all about avoiding potential confusion. If you follow tutorial pattern
> of putting applications inside your project directory, you can end up
> with namespace confusion. For example "from foo.foo import urls" would
> be valid, and so would "from foo import urls"  -- but in the second
> case, it would depend on your specific setup as to whether you are
> referencing the application level urls or the project level urls.
>
> While this doesn't strictly cause problems at the Python level - the
> import path is clearly defined, so there isn't *technically* any
> ambiguity, it's likely to be the source of more than a few headaches,
> so Django catches it as a validation problem if you try to create a
> potentially ambiguous application.
>
> If you are sure you really want to have the same name for app and
> project, you can - just manually create the application directory and
> models.py. The name duplication isn't caught as a validation error
> once the application exists  -- it's just a validation error for the
> `startapp` command.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)

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