Re: App Engine port

2009-02-17 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
No comments on the more efficient perms/contenttypes implementation? I'd really like to know if that is an option because if it's not I should better make app-engine-patch 1.0 compatible with the less efficient implementation. Hmm, or I could emulate those db tables in the backend, but that

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-14 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 14 Feb., 03:08, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 02:14 -0800, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > On 12 Feb., 03:51, Malcolm Tredinnick > > wrote: > > > > Is the plan somewhere on the wiki? > > > > No, because it's only something

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-14 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Seems like my message didn't reach the server. Sending again. Sorry if you receive this twice. On 14 Feb., 03:08, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 02:14 -0800, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > On 12 Feb., 03:51, Malcolm Tredinnick

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-14 Thread subs...@gmail.com
Basic demand side problem. When an app stands up and solves the real issues (which, as the DjangoCon presentation proved, there were many) involving App Engine and Django, then I (and the demographic of developers I statistically represent) will become excited. -S On Feb 6, 9:51 am, David

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-13 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 02:14 -0800, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > On 12 Feb., 03:51, Malcolm Tredinnick > wrote: > > > Is the plan somewhere on the wiki? > > > > No, because it's only something I'm pulling together slowly in my head. > > I hope you've read my wiki page,

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-12 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 12 Feb., 03:51, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > Is the plan somewhere on the wiki? > > No, because it's only something I'm pulling together slowly in my head. I hope you've read my wiki page, so that in the end Django is flexible enough to work even with App Engine's

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-11 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:08 -0800, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > On 10 Feb., 05:25, Malcolm Tredinnick > wrote: > > I have a reasonably fleshed out plan to make things easier here in the > > Django 1.2 timeframe. The rough idea is that everything under >

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-11 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi Malcolm, On 10 Feb., 05:25, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > I have a reasonably fleshed out plan to make things easier here in the > Django 1.2 timeframe. The rough idea is that everything under > django/db/models/sql/ could be replaced with a module of the developer's

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-10 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:36 PM, David Larlet wrote: > > > Le 10 févr. 09 à 17:53, Alex Gaynor a écrit : > > David, I think I mentioned this to you, but I believe that by using > > the new F() objects we can actually remove the raw SQL entirely, I'd > > need to put some more

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-10 Thread David Larlet
Le 10 févr. 09 à 17:53, Alex Gaynor a écrit : > David, I think I mentioned this to you, but I believe that by using > the new F() objects we can actually remove the raw SQL entirely, I'd > need to put some more thought into this(and perhaps Malcolm already > has) but it should be possible.

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-10 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, David Larlet wrote: > > > Le 10 févr. 09 à 05:25, Malcolm Tredinnick a écrit : > > There's also > > simple enough stuff like removing the last vestiges of raw SQL from a > > couple of places (most notable related fields, but that should > >

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-10 Thread David Larlet
Le 10 févr. 09 à 05:25, Malcolm Tredinnick a écrit : > There's also > simple enough stuff like removing the last vestiges of raw SQL from a > couple of places (most notable related fields, but that should > probably > go after, or in tandem with, a rewrite of related fields to clean them > up

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-10 Thread David Stenglein
Malcolm, Russell, James, Thanks for taking the time to respond so thoroughly to my questions. I think that these questions are rooted in the unrealistic idea that something that looks like it would be good relationship- or PR-wise is also a good development priority. As I expressed, I've

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-09 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 03:32 -0800, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > Hi Russell, > > On 6 Feb., 11:34, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > I would suggest to you that the broader project of "modifying the > > django.db.models interface to be fully independent of SQL" is much > >

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-09 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 09:51 -0500, David Stenglein wrote: > I have to ask a question here. Why is there such reticence regarding > App Engine? It would > seem to me that App Engine has been a feather in the cap for Django. A > lot of people don't know Django and at a previous job, I was able to >

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:51 PM, David Stenglein wrote: > > I have to ask a question here. Why is there such reticence regarding > App Engine? It would > seem to me that App Engine has been a feather in the cap for Django. A > lot of people don't know Django and at a

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, David Stenglein wrote: > I have to ask a question here. Why is there such reticence regarding > App Engine? I'm curious as to what reticence you think there is; since, as Russell said, code to get a straight Django with all features

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread David Stenglein
I have to ask a question here. Why is there such reticence regarding App Engine? It would seem to me that App Engine has been a feather in the cap for Django. A lot of people don't know Django and at a previous job, I was able to say that "Google chose django" for App Engine to help validate my

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
On 6 Feb., 13:10, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Ok - sounds like they could be some good contributions. I just wanted > to make sure you were not planning on making the Django wiki the home > of the "how to use app-engine-patch" documentation. Hmm, now that you mention

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > On 6 Feb., 11:34, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> I would suggest to you that the broader project of "modifying the >> django.db.models interface to be fully independent of

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi Russell, On 6 Feb., 11:34, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I would suggest to you that the broader project of "modifying the > django.db.models interface to be fully independent of SQL" is much > more likely to get core developer support. We (the Django core) will > be

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > BTW, could someone please activate my "wkornewald" Trac account, so I > can move the documentation into your wiki? After I pressed send, something else occurred to me: Before you starting loading documentation

Re: App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > > A native Django port could provide us with a clean, more powerful, and > more actively developed API for App Engine development. Moreover, it > could provide a solution for provider lock-in by abstracting the >

App Engine port

2009-02-06 Thread Waldemar Kornewald
Hi everyone, first of all, let me introduce myself. I'm the main developer behind app-engine-patch which is a port of Django to App Engine: http://code.google.com/p/app-engine-patch/ Our repository version of Django now even supports the admin interface and almost all of Django's other features,