That's what I gathered from the various tidbits of information, but I will try looking at the archives.
It's a shame, because it was a fantastic idea. Even to this day, it's pretty hard to properly customize form elements. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > On 05/01/2013 10:52 AM, Nicolas Bouliane wrote: > > I have done as suggested and submitted my proposal in the mailing list. > > I heard about the Google Summer of Code /very/ recently, but hopefully > > I'll be able to submit an accurate and sensible proposal on time! > > > > Coincidentally, I am also proposing changes to the Forms API, and I must > > say it is very hard to find more information about the 2011 GSoC project > > and the reason of its failure. Is there a better source than the commit > > log to learn more about it? > > Probably searching the archives of this mailing list during that summer > would be your best option. > > I was the mentor for that GSoC project, and the reason for its failure > is that the Django template language proved too slow for the > template-based system we proposed for rendering form widgets and form > layouts; form-rendering speed suffered by an order of magnitude in some > cases. There was another GSoC project that summer to speed up the > template language and for a time we'd hoped that would provide a > solution, but that project also failed in the end. > > Carl > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/xrP6-Fx0Jbs/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- *Nicolas Bouliane* (450) 577-1663 ยท nicolasbouliane.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
