adding (not just overriding) settings should work too

[ghost]

It would be nice if things like INSTALLED_APPS += ('django-extensions',) would work with settingsdev and/or settingslocal respectively.

Of course this isn't just true for INSTALLED_APPS but should work in general. For example, things like this should work:
INTERNAL_IPS = ('127.0.0.1',)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES += ('debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware',)
INSTALLED_APPS += ('debug_toolbar',)

[robmadole]

You know I've ran into this too. It's because those are tuples and immutable. I'll see if I can come up with something that makes sense to include in this project. You have any ideas? This is ugly but functional (I think, haven't tried it)

INSTALLED_APPS = list(INSTALLED_APPS) + ['debug_toolbar']

[ghost]

A solution might be to work with exec() and compile() to load a series of settings files in order, where each file has full access to settings from previously-loaded files, to update, modify, etc.

http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SplitSettings#UsingalistofconffilesTransifex

[robmadole]

Thanks, I'll check this out.

[ghost]

I am now using INSTALLED_APPS += ('django_extensions',) from settingsdev.py by putting
exec(compile(open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), 'settingsdev.py')).read(), "settingsdev.py", 'exec'))
into settings.py. This of course only works if
import settingsdev
api.collect(settingsdev)
is not used. I guess now we only need to make django-sunset use exec() implicitly for settingsdev.py, settingslocal.py, and everything in deployments/ etc.

[robmadole]

Wow, that does get pretty hairy.

Try this before we get too crazy with things.

In settingsdev or settingslocal:

import settingsbase
INSTALLED_APPS = list(settingsbase.INSTALLED_APPS) + [
    'debug_toolbar']

I would hate to get complex with this as long as there is a simple solution that accomplishes the same goal.

[robmadole]

Hey sunoano, is this issue resolved? I was going to close it out if you've worked around it.