Re: Rethinking silent failures in templates

2008-05-14 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Simon Willison wrote: > Silent errors are bad. If we were to remove them, how much of a > negative impact would it have on the existing user base? +1 from me. I always set TEMPLATE_DEBUG to True and TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID to something that stands out, during development. -- Nicola Larosa -

Re: Multiple database support

2008-05-20 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
koenb wrote: > For those interested in multiple database support, I have started > working on it again, and posted my work-in-progress to ticket #4747. > ... > Anyway, if anyone is interested in helping, please let me know! I am going to need this in a month or so. Actions speak louder than words

Re: Multiple database support

2008-05-20 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Daryl Spitzer wrote: > If I don't, I see if I can at least make enough time to write up the API > I came up with at PyCon. Please do, that would be great. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.teknico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

Re: Is URL template tag's syntax going to change?

2008-07-21 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Johannes Dollinger wrote: > Of course that's subjective, everything is. You're in the wrong line of work, man... ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Djang

Re: Call for testing: new docs

2008-08-21 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > The best way to help out right now is to grab the "docs-refactor" > branch from my git repo Hereby convened, we mourn the untimely demise of the "toys" hg repo: by many will it be sorely missed, time and again, bringing tears to the cheeks of the afflicted. But no! Don

Re: compressed fixture support

2008-09-13 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
I have a use case for compressed fixtures too. > Jeremy Dunck wrote: >> I'd like to add support for fixture load/dump to deal with compressed >> (gzip) files transparently. Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > I don't see a good reason *not* to do this, but I also don't see the > space requirements as a b

Re: Building the documentation locally

2006-05-15 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> Welcome, Nicola! And thanks very much for your documentation patch; > I've committed it. You're welcome. BTW, there's more where that came from: see the same ticket (#1815). -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Re: svn merge problem

2006-05-16 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> /me makes another note to spend some serious time with BZR... Try spending some time with Mercurial, too. It's simpler, smaller and faster than Bazaar-NG, while also being written in Python, with a little C. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net --~--~-~--~~~

Re: svn merge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> I can't find it now, but I recall reading on the Mercurial site that it > doesn't support versioning directories, which seems like an awful step > back into cvs-land. Maybe I misunderstood? Directory versioning is obviously supported. There are some limits on renaming: http://www.selenic.com/p

Re: OT: arbitrary precision decimals for Python?

2006-05-29 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> Sorry for the OT post, but what do people use for arbitrary > precision decimals in Python? > > I would think it's in the standard libraries somewhere, but I > must be googling the wrong terms. It's called... [drum roll] decimal! ;-) http://docs.python.org/lib/module-decimal.html -- Nicola

Re: Patch review procedure?

2006-05-31 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
>> Works like a charm. (I'm hardly an svk expert, though, so there are >> probably easier/less verbose recipes for doing the same thing.) > If only Darcs were the norm... As far as distributed VCSes go, I'd like to cast my vote for Mercurial. It's a little Python jewel, as fast as Git, more con

We're being had

2006-06-02 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Ilias Lazaridis is a known Internet troll. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ilias Let's stop feeding him/her/it, it's just a waste of time. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Users know the business better than you do, whoever you are. If you are willing to learn, you can

Re: the so-called [AUDIT]

2006-06-02 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
C8E wrote: > and maybe also > > http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ilias > > ;) Didn't want to steal your thunder, pal, but since you weren't speaking up, I did. Thanks for that URL! :-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

Moving old-style classes to new-style

2006-06-07 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
This post on django-users: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/7d4773cccde8d51d manifests some interest in moving the old-style classes to new-style: with some fairly short grunt work I made a patch about it, and attached it to ticket #2109: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2109

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2007-01-09 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > The try/except in this case is meant to handle the case in which > somebody is using newforms without the rest of Django, which was an > early goal of mine. Since then, I've sort of resigned myself to > requiring Django, due to ties into the internationalization hooks and

That would be *cookieless* [was: Stateless sessions almost here]

2007-01-10 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Brian Beck wrote: > So I'm working on a stateless sessions app that people will be able to > swap with django.contrib.sessions in their settings if they need that > (a recent post mentioned mobile phone browsers for example, apparently > they don't support cookies?). I don't actually care that muc

Re: Proposal: Named auth backends and backend specific profiles

2007-01-11 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
On 11 Gen, 22:34, "Joseph Kocherhans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd love to use a dictionary, but the order of backends matters. I > wish python had a decent syntax for what basically amounts to an > ordered dict. It's a FAQ, and bait for flamefests, here's a big one: http://groups-beta.googl

Re: Autoescaping for 1.0

2007-01-12 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
On 13 Gen, 06:02, "SmileyChris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need to come to a consensus on Django autoescaping There's an interesting discussion on GvR's blog, with several mentions of escaping: http://www.artima.com/forums/threaded.jsp?forum=106&thread=146606 Speaking of Django 1.0, it als

Re: Encouraging contributed documentation

2007-02-05 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Vadim Macagon wrote: > I'd also like to see a script that generates a CHM (Compiled HTML Help) > from the official Django ReST docs. The CHM could then be included as > part of the installer-based release for Windows users. One of these days > I'll probably get fed up waiting for the pages on djan

Re: Auto-escaping patch

2007-02-07 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > But it's all "git" under the covers. I wrote up a brief description when > I started using this a few months ago: > http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/topics/software/version%20control/ . (I know, I should have directly commented on that page, and I would have, if there

Please encourage PsycoPG 2 usage (not 1!)

2007-02-08 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Dear devs, please apply the patch in ticket #3364 as soon as possible. There's still people around that do not use PsycoPG 2, because of that obsolete note in doc/install.txt . Thank you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I've heard that some people have a saying: "Pain is weakness le

Re: Important info for translators (especially those with commit access)

2009-12-26 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I've just committed [12003], which reverted commit [12000]. Sorry, my bad: couldn't resist the nice rev number. ;-) > This mirrors commit [11941], which reverted [11881]. These commits all > relate to translation updates for the 1.0.X branch. > > Translations should