> As a Django dev, this is one of those things that actually makes me jealous of Rails, where the core devs are not afraid of breaking backwards compatibility f

> As a Django dev, this is one of those things that actually makes me jealous of Rails, where the core devs are not afraid of breaking backwards compatibility for sanity's sake. I work on Django since about 0.9-1.0 and I remember some settings (recently cache, static media) breaking compatibility, so it's not the case. IIRC a new settings module may be introduced in 1.5 and OP's workflow can be automated with fabric.