Create management command management command

[Katie McLaughlin]

There already exists a startproject for creating projects using a template, and startapp for apps.

This feature would create a management command, using itself a management command.

[Claude Paroz]

I'm not very thrilled by the idea. We already have detailed instructions in the docs (​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/custom-management-commands/).

[Carlton Gibson]

I feel this one.

It's not that the instructions are not good/correct, it's that "Ooo, I can make a management command" leads straight to, "Oh, I have to create a folder, and an __init__.py, Oh and another folder, Oh and another __init__.py".

And then it's, "Oh, hang on, what are the imports?" and "What do I have to subclass?" and "What methods do I need to implement?".

It's a real pain.

I'm going to say wontfix on this though, since ​Django Extensions already implements a `create_command` command, which sets up the folders and puts a command scaffolding in (​that looks like this).

That does the job perfectly. I don't think we can improve.

_Maybe_ on pulling it into core, but the whole point of Django Extensions is that useful stuff lives there that we haven't (and may or may not pull in). As a community we should make sure users know it exists, since it's great.

I hope that's fair. Katie, if you still think, "Yes, this should be in core" then please follow up on Django Developers and we can discuss.

[Katie McLaughlin]

Replying to Carlton Gibson:

I hope that's fair.

Totally fair.

Django Extensions

I really need to investigate this one more. I was told in passing "Oh, Django Extensions does that" (in the context of something else), but without knowing what Django Extensions *is*, where it sits in the ecosystem, and realising it's purpose, I totally accept that this issue is outside of scope of core.