Unless anybody has strong objections, I'd like to merge the Unicode branch into trunk very soon (within a few days, if nobody cares much).
This should introduce no major backwards incompatibilities, as far as I'm aware. The branch is no less stable than trunk and fixes a number of popular bugs -- see [1] for a list. Based on feedback on the django-users list, here and private mail I've received, there are a least a couple of dozen people using it regularly, mostly in non-English-speaking countries. In fact, the biggest risk group are people using only ASCII data. I've been testing regularly against my existing corpus of code without making any special porting changes to validate backwards-compat and everything is pretty much byte-for-byte identical. The main subtlety is that URL encoding and quoting has a couple of corner-cases fixed that changes the bytes returned, but not the semantics or behaviour. There will always be small tweaks to do going forwards, but they are just that: small. And we're now in a much better position to fix things in a consistent fashion. So, any good technical reasons not to the merge? Russell, Adrian, Jacob: anybody want to read through a couple of thousand lines of diffs for review or do you feel like trusting me and/or the userbase (diffstat tells me the changes are: "190 files changed, 2880 insertions(+), 1643 deletions(-)", although 11 files are doc files and 60 files are test files, so the core changes aren't quite that bad). Regards, Malcolm [1] http://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&keywords=%7Eunicode-branch&order=priority -- I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
