Loadable/Unloadable django apps

Question

I wanted to make an application which could handle other applications as plugins, that the user could download and load/unload at any time. I read all the django documentation, and there doesn't seem to be a proper way to do it apart from installing the app by hand a doing a syncdb, with no possibility of unloading.

A good example of what I want to do could be the wordpress plugins. I wanted something like that for my django project, downloadable "plugins" that the user can load and unload at any time.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

I don't think it's possible. Django loads all its .py files only once, when its *cgi process is started. So to updating your urls.py or models.py requires restarting cgi, and I don't think you want to allow your users doing this. :-)