Django-registration compatibility issue with django 1.7

I've been using [django-registration] (https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration) and now I have started using django 1.7b1 and here is the error I am getting the error copied below. It is being raised from django-registration in models.py:

try:
    from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
    User = get_user_model()
except ImportError:
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User

and it seems it is being raised because get_user_model() is being called before the app registry is ready. I am not sure if this a compatibility issue or not, if yes is there a simple workaround for this? and if not can you help me identify what I am doing wrong?

RuntimeError: App registry isn't ready yet.
File "/Users/nima/pe-dev/manage.py", line 9, in <module>
  execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 427, in execute_from_command_line
  utility.execute()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 391, in execute
  django.setup()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/__init__.py", line 21, in setup
  apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/apps/registry.py", line 106, in populate
  app_config.import_models(all_models)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/apps/config.py", line 190, in import_models
  self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 37, in import_module
  __import__(name)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/registration/models.py", line 15, in <module>
  User = get_user_model()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/__init__.py", line 136, in get_user_model
  return django_apps.get_model(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/apps/registry.py", line 187, in get_model
  self.check_ready()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/Django-1.7b1-py2.7.egg/django/apps/registry.py", line 119, in check_ready
  raise RuntimeError("App registry isn't ready yet.")

Solution

Don't use the django-registration available from PyPI. It does not support Django 1.7 and it appears it never will. The repo maintainer has abdicated and the project appears unmaintained.

There is a maintenance fork available on Github which has worked well for me with Django 1.7:

https://github.com/macropin/django-registration

It's available from PyPI as django-registration-redux.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-registration-redux/

You can install using pip:

pip install django-registration-redux