how do you name the 'main' app?

[gabor]

hi,

i'm constantly facing the following naming-problem.

let's say you are going to create a web gallery, because you need one.

so you start with:

django-admin.py startproject gallery

and now, you want to do "./manage.py startapp <app-name>".

but what should the app-name be?

from a practical point of view, it should be 'gallery' again,
because that's what you are going to create.

but i remember that once i had a problem with the app having the same
name as the project, so i'd rather not do that.

so, what should happen now?

call the app as 'main'? seems as a particularly ugly solution.

so, how do you name your 'main' app in a django-project?

gabor

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On 20-Sep-06, at 3:21 PM, gabor wrote:

> so, how do you name your 'main' app in a django-project?

i give a name related to the website

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[Flavio Curella]

I call the project as the website (the domain or my client name), and
the app just like what it is.

startproject mydomain.com
startapp blog

[Ivan Sagalaev]

gabor wrote:
> so, how do you name your 'main' app in a django-project?

For me it depends on project's type.

If a project is autonomous and serves one purpose then, yes, I call the
main app 'main' and it could even be the only app in the project.

If a project is multi-purpose and just powers a whole site or many parts
of it then there is no concept of main app at all and all apps are named
by their function.

[Frankie Robertson]

I generally call applications that are primarly database backed by the
most important table's name unless another name is immediately more
obvious. So if the site is a webcomic then call the app comics. If it
is a song lyric website call it lyrics. Otherwise there shouldn't be a
particular problem with calling it main or base or whatever. You may
find later that you can refactor it into more applications.