Cannot use a settings file outside of my project package

[Gregor Müllegger]

I want to use the djangorecipe's manage.py wrapper and the test script in a new
created django app.

I have the following directory structure:

    src/
        app/
            __init__.py
            tests.py
    buildout.cfg
    testsettings.py

And here is the django part of my buildout.cfg:

[django]
recipe = djangorecipe
version = 1.1.1
project = app
projectegg = app
settings = testsettings
test = app
eggs =
extra-paths =
  src

Unfortunatelly djangorecipe will fail here. It will not find my settings file
correctly, because it always prepends the settings module name with the project
name which results in `app.testsettings` in this case. This not a good
behaviour and is limiting my project layout. Ofcourse i considered moving the
testsettings.py file into the app direcotry, but I think it is no good habit
for a django app to ship with its own settings file.

Just give me nice hint if I have overlooked an option that makes djangorecipe
behave the way which is needed in this case.

[Jeroen Vloothuis (jvloothuis)]

Thanks for your clear report. I am afraid that there currently is no work-around for this. It should be possible to introduce an option to disable the prepending of the application. A patch to make this happen would be greatly appreciated.

[Gregor Müllegger (gregor-muellegger)]

Here is a working patch with tests and short documentation. It introduces the
`prepend_project_name` option which can be set to 'no', 'false' or '0' to
prevent the behaviour described above.

But i'm not happy yet with the option name `prepend_project_name`. Maybe
`skip_settings_prefix` is a better name. What do you think?

You can also find my work in the branch:
lp:~gregor-muellegger/djangorecipe/skip-settings-prefix

Gregor

[Jeroen Vloothuis (jvloothuis)]

Perhaps calling the option `settingsprefx`. That way one could use it like:

settingsprefix = false

What do you think?

[Gregor Müllegger (gregor-muellegger)]

I renamed the option to `prefixsettings`. I think `settingsprefix` sounds more like an option that sets the prefix than a boolean option that disables the prefix.

Is this ok?