Re: declarative settings

2020-02-27 Thread Robert Marsanyi
I have to say, having settings as Python code is one of the features of Django for me. Being able to calculate settings values, take advantage of Python’s module/class parsing, and so on all make settings more than just a set of dictionary values. I think we would lose a bit of functionality i

Re: 2020 Authentication Initiativ

2019-04-25 Thread Robert Marsanyi
Many of these auth systems are client/server, not going to be the simplest thing to configure the entire stack for simple projects/tutorials/testing environments and so on. I can definitely see having.a pluggable alternative to the contrib.auth package that implements all the client-side stuff,

Re: Add support for filter arguments in queryset.exists() and queryset.count()

2019-01-19 Thread Robert Marsanyi
I agree, -1, for composability. I must also say, I find the current idiom easier to read than the proposed version, but by far the more important factor to me is the violation of composability by bundling different kinds of functionality into one call. One of the nice features of querysets. -