Don't require global state

[piecommerce]

The Django community has been interested in finding a way, for a while now, to remove global state from the framework. This is a good pattern to adopt in any API, in practice. For instance:

stripe = get_gateway("stripe", {"API_KEY": "???", ...})

In the above example, the get_gateway method would instantiate the gateway matching the given gateway name with the provided settings. The gateway's __init__ method would be updated to support this. If no settings were provided, the existing merchant_settings = getattr(settings, "MERCHANT_SETTINGS") would take over. The change would be fully backwards compatible.

[theju]

I think this is a valid request and I think there may have been a fork [1] with someone working on it. Would you be interested in contributing a pull request?

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-merchant/ACzenR_M6j8