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Why doesn't `manage.py startapp` give us an option to automatically add the app to `INSTALLED_APPS`? #1539

Closed nbro closed 3 weeks ago

nbro commented 3 weeks ago

I've just run python manage.py startapp --help and I've not found an option to automatically add our newly created app to INSTALLED_APPS, which is very surprising to me, because, clearly, in many if not most cases, we want to do this operation immediately after running the startapp command.

So, why isn't there a flag that allows us to do this automatically? Why should we always have to manually do this?

I'm using Django 5.0.6.

Feel free to move this issue to another more suitable repository.

bmispelon commented 3 weeks ago

Hi,

Django uses a different system for bugs/feature requests. This repository is only for issues with the website itself.

Please see this page for how to report issues to Django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/bugs-and-features/#reporting-bugs

Have a nice day

nbro commented 3 weeks ago

@bmispelon This is not a feature request. It's a question about manage.py startapp, whose answer could actually be on the website. Eventually, I could also request this feature, but I'd like to first understand why this doesn't exist. Maybe there's a good reason.

bmispelon commented 3 weeks ago

I see, either way this repository is for issues with the website itself, not with Django or its documentation.

See the FAQ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/faq/help/#how-do-i-do-x-why-doesn-t-y-work-where-can-i-go-to-get-help for where you can ask these questions.