From fed660e425a8ff5c0e96befdd2c0b6e6e2bb335b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:04:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Refs #12288 -- Clarified that application names must be unique. Thanks to Piotr Czachur for the report. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13219 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/ref/settings.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt index 9830d4fe42..58f87b9cf4 100644 --- a/docs/ref/settings.txt +++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt @@ -880,6 +880,14 @@ installation. Each string should be a full Python path to a Python package that contains a Django application, as created by :djadmin:`django-admin.py startapp `. +.. admonition:: App names must be unique + + The application names (that is, the final dotted part of the + path to the module containing ``models.py``) defined in + :setting:`INSTALLED_APPS` *must* be unique. For example, you can't + include both ``django.contrib.auth`` and ``myproject.auth`` in + INSTALLED_APPS. + .. setting:: INTERNAL_IPS INTERNAL_IPS