Reloading django apps is problematic

[v1kku]

In apps.py django_jsonfield_backport is added to INSTALLED_APPS and django is forced to reload the apps. This is problematic for projects that perform non-idempotent operations in their apps' ready method. 3rd party packages should not be doing this. Can't that check just report an error asking the user to add django_jsonfield_backport to INSTALLED_APPS (and a warning that reminds them to remove it if django>=3.1)? I'm happy to make a PR for that

[auvipy]

@lociii what do you suggest?

[lociii]

Sounds good to me. However this will be a breaking change as activity stream will stop working with JSON data field when the update is installed and django_jsonfield_backport is not added to the INSTALLED_APPS .

[justquick]

go ahead and make a PR so we can see the solution