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pinax / pinax-teams

an app for Django sites that supports open, by invitation, and by application teams
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Running without Pinax dependencies? #64

Closed lggwettmann closed 5 years ago

lggwettmann commented 6 years ago

Hey guys,

I'd love to use pinax-teams, but my app is not built with pinax-user-accounts or any of the other apps. I am willing to add some dependencies, but as I already use django-allauth and my app user authentication is handled, I'd rather not add pinax-user-accounts.

Is there a way to use pinax-teams without all the dependencies or at least pinax-user-accounts? Alternatively, do you know about similar packages? I couldn't find anything useful. Thanks for your help in advance.

KatherineMichel commented 6 years ago

Pinax Teams is open source with an MIT license. You are free to modify it however you see fit. But Pinax Teams and DUA are integrated together, so might not be worth your time to re-configure. I'm not sure about a replacement. If you post in our Slack help channel, someone else might have an idea. Or you could search GitHub or PyPi. I'm sure there are alternatives. http://slack.pinaxproject.com/

jtauber commented 6 years ago

I presume you're fine with using pinax-invitations so the only issue is django-user-accounts?

It may be possible to remove that dependency (by which I mean the apps be modified to fall back if DUA isn't available)

jtauber commented 6 years ago

Ironically, django-allauth started off from django-user-accounts so much of this sort of thing could have been avoided if they'd just collaborated from the start rather than forked the code :-)

jacobwegner commented 6 years ago

@lggwettmann I agree that there'd be a fair amount of work to abstract the django-user-accounts and pinax-invitations dependencies out to swappable backends for other registration / invitation apps.

An alternative project with similar functionality to this project is django-organizations. I can't speak as to how well it might integrate with django-allauth, but I think it is worth a closer look:

http://django-organizations.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#invitation-registration-backends

lggwettmann commented 6 years ago

Thanks, guys. I'll check out django-organizations first, before I look into modifying django-teams.

I see the advantages of the pinax suite, but prefer the loose coupling over pinax's 'lock-in' to its dependency apps. So I'm quite happy with all-auth on itself tbh. And a DUA with a fallback seems like an ideal solution to me. Kind of best of both worlds: great coupling with the pinax apps if available, but still usable for everyone else.

KatherineMichel commented 5 years ago

Closing issue as resolved.