Question

a newbie django question

I want to use 3rd party app, but I need to make some mods to it (in this case, the app is django-registration, and I need to change things such as allowing registration without confirmation email)

Initially, I simply installed the app in the general site-packages folder, and changed the code there. Now that I put my code on bitbucket I need a way to be able to keep my mods in the repository in a usable way, and uploading the full python code doesn’t sound like a good idea.

I guess the best way would be to keep the 3rd party app in site-packages, and create an app in my project to keep my changes. In my case, I’d create my-django-registration in my project, and then import this when I need it in my code, rather than django-registration.

I also read about virtualenv, but I think that’s mostly used for being able to use multiple environments in the same machine (in fact, somewhere it advises against changing the modules installed in the virtualenv), and doesn’t help me with keeping my changes in a repository.

Any comments welcome!
Thanks

Answer 1

I think the neatest way to accomplish what you look for would be to fork django-registration, and in your app use the fork instead of the original project.

That being said, you can have a non-email registration in django-registration without changing the code of the app. I’ve done it by creating a custom registration backend that sets the users as activated upon creation. Here you can see other ways to do the same.