Re: High Level Discussion about the Future of Django

2010-04-04 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On ma, 2010-04-05 at 14:37 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > For some perspective - even though Python 3.1 is out, dropping support > for Python 2.3 in Django 1.2 is being greeted as controversial in some > circles because RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 is still officially > supported by RedHat, and

Re: High Level Discussion about the Future of Django

2010-04-04 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, orokusaki wrote: > This is a bit abstract, but I'd like to bring up this idea, and > firstly let me say that I don't intend to waste the time of the major > contributors (unless you want to join in of course). I mostly want to > get an idea of what some of the cont

Re: High Level Discussion about the Future of Django

2010-04-04 Thread Gabriel Hurley
If you haven't already, take a read through the "internals" section of the docs. It covers a number of the questions you've asked about deprecation, what can be changed in minor (1.x) releases, etc. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/ They were definitely interesting for me. Being a

Re: Validate a form's excluded fields if a value is present

2010-04-04 Thread orokusaki
I've been brainstorming (ie, drinking more coffee than I should), and what I came up with to be the best (IMHO) solution for A) Less confusion, and B) Less risk of API breakage is: ModelForm.is_valid(include_all_fields=True) or ModelForm.is_all_fields_valid() and neither are going to be an issu

High Level Discussion about the Future of Django

2010-04-04 Thread orokusaki
This is a bit abstract, but I'd like to bring up this idea, and firstly let me say that I don't intend to waste the time of the major contributors (unless you want to join in of course). I mostly want to get an idea of what some of the contributors/feature proposers out there are thinking of, in a

Re: GSoC: App Loading

2010-04-04 Thread Florian Apolloner
I don't have much to say, as Alex pretty much covered it; but that's the list: * Assume an app1 which requires another app2 (and has some ForeignKeys to it). Currently that's easy; just import the model and ForeignKey it. How would those imports look like in your case (eg to which models would ap

Re: GSoC: App Loading

2010-04-04 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Arthur Koziel wrote: > Hi, > I’m going to apply for GSoC with the goal of refactoring the app loading > [0]. I’ve been looking at Django’s current app loading implementation > (db.models.loading), Vinay Sajip’s patch in #3591 [1] and the notes on the > InstalledApps

GSoC: App Loading

2010-04-04 Thread Arthur Koziel
Hi, I’m going to apply for GSoC with the goal of refactoring the app loading [0]. I’ve been looking at Django’s current app loading implementation (db.models.loading), Vinay Sajip’s patch in #3591 [1] and the notes on the InstalledAppsRevision wiki page [2]. Here's what I'm planning to change.