Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
> On 10/26/06 2:49 AM, Christopher Lenz wrote:
> > Oh come on, just let Python 2.3 users install the decimal module from
> > SF:
> >
> >    <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
> > group_id=104148&package_id=130611&release_id=291663>
> >
> > I'd also suggest keeping FloatField as it is (i.e. half-broken,
> > depending on DB backend, or fix it to always return floats, but
> > that's break backwards compatibility again), deprecate it, and
> > introduce the new DecimalField. Only the use of DecimalField would
> > require the decimal.py module, same as ImageField requires PIL.
>
> Yeah, this sounds like a very good idea.  Doesn't break existing code, doesn't
> require decimal.py if floats are OK.  I'm +1 on this - any objections?

+1 too.

I think we should fix FloatField to use the correct type in the DB
backend though (and document possible backwards-incompatibilities) -
it's a shame to leave it half-broken before a 1.0 release.

Jason


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