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Django Pluggables

Posted on April 10, 2008

I just happened across a site called Django Plug(g)ables, which provides a centralized repository for browsing and finding Django reusable applications. It’s beautifully designed and fills a much needed niche in the Django ecosphere. I know that lots of individuals have focussed on solving this problem over time but it looks like Django Pluggables is the first complete offering, and I’m extremely impressed with what I’ve seen so far.

Filed under: Django | Tagged with: apps django reusable  |

Comments
  1. Marinho Brandão – April 10, 2008 @ 10:29 AM

    Good news :)

    What I don’t understand is that when I defended for a change in Django’s INSTALLED_APPS way to a more flexible style to do this, my intention was exactly turn possible huge number of pluggable apps.

    Not only this change is necessary but others also, like Partial Classes in Ruby, but some of them are implemented on some of branches, like QuerySetRefactory, NewForms-Admin and others.

    But a lot of people said I was wrong “because there is already a ‘good practice’ to do this”. But I not agree with these people because the simple fact that there is no a big part of people using just one “good practice” to do.

    But, anyway, I am happy with this website and I think this is one more step to make Django applications each day best and ease :)

  2. Hassan Hodges – April 10, 2008 @ 11:27 AM

    I stumbled on that site this morning and thought it had been around for ages, but I’d some how missed it. I guess that’s what makes it work well, it’s not a ghost town.

  3. Bryan Veloso – April 10, 2008 @ 03:20 PM

    Thanks for the plug Michael, and apologies about the spelling mishap. Actually the “spelling wrong thing” was purely based on the logo looking icky with two “g”s, so we decided to have both names available. ;)

    Anyway, there’s still a lot I have to do with it, like add tags and such. But I’m glad people feel it’s already complete and feel free to throw suggestions my way if you have any ideas to make the site more useful.