fakr

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   by fakr 16y ago

   Exactly, it saves a lot of time when you want a cookie-cutter site using lots of 3rd party apps. Not knocking that - there are lots of cases where that's exactly what you need. But this is what reminds me more of a CMS like Drupal than a fr
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   by fakr 16y ago

   Authentication is something in my experience that is specific to an individual project. I don't want to be told what database schema I must use to store my user data - that's a specific project requirement (unless I'm building a cookie-cutt
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   by fakr 16y ago

   You completely missed my points: 1. The framework should not define your data model. 2. Many 3rd party apps depend on the existing User and other auth models.
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   by fakr 16y ago

   The real issue I have with Django - and extensions such as comments - is that in some ways it feels like a CMS masquerading as a framework. Take for example contrib.auth - it defines User, Group and Permission models for you. Frequently thi