Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 3:55 AM, James Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> My concern with having two fields is that it introduces a false >> dichotomy. There aren't just 2 options here - potentially any >> permutation of the following list is possibl

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > My concern with having two fields is that it introduces a false > dichotomy. There aren't just 2 options here - potentially any > permutation of the following list is possible: While this is true, there are three common cases, which ca

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:49 PM, James Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> I could live with either approach existing in the codebase. I won't >> express a preference, though - I'll leave the decision of which >> approach is preferable to those that w

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:44 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> This is completely backwards compatible as long as we keep >> "STATE_CHOICES" to the same subset that exists today. > > Yikes, that's really restrictive. You want that list to

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-24 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > I could live with either approach existing in the codebase. I won't > express a preference, though - I'll leave the decision of which > approach is preferable to those that will actually have to use it. Honestly, given both the controv

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Laager
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 11:44 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > This is completely backwards compatible as long as we keep > "STATE_CHOICES" to the same subset that exists today. Yikes, that's really restrictive. You want that list to remain static until Django 2.0? I ask because the Canadian pro

Re: Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-23 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:29 AM, James Bennett wrote: > I've previously brought up some issues with the removal of certain > options from the choices on localflavor's USStateField[1] as a result > of ticket #8425[2] and, with feature freeze for 1.2 approaching and > perhaps more time soon to be av

Ticket #8425 and USStateField (again)

2009-12-22 Thread James Bennett
I've previously brought up some issues with the removal of certain options from the choices on localflavor's USStateField[1] as a result of ticket #8425[2] and, with feature freeze for 1.2 approaching and perhaps more time soon to be available for such things, I'd like to call attention to it again

Re: USStateField (again)

2009-08-25 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:08 AM, ch...@moffitts.net wrote: > > > > On Aug 22, 8:12 am, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Tim >> >> Chase wrote: >> >> > James Bennett wrote: >> >> The current proposal is for a "USPostalCodeField" which >> >> corresponds to the US Po

Re: USStateField (again)

2009-08-24 Thread ch...@moffitts.net
On Aug 22, 8:12 am, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Tim > > Chase wrote: > > > James Bennett wrote: > >> The current proposal is for a "USPostalCodeField" which > >> corresponds to the US Postal Service's list of postal codes: > > >>http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups

Re: USStateField (again)

2009-08-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > > James Bennett wrote: >> The current proposal is for a "USPostalCodeField" which >> corresponds to the US Postal Service's list of postal codes: >> >> http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbr_state.txt >> >> [snip] Based on the various arguments up

Re: USStateField (again)

2009-08-22 Thread Tim Chase
James Bennett wrote: > The current proposal is for a "USPostalCodeField" which > corresponds to the US Postal Service's list of postal codes: > > http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/abbr_state.txt > > [snip] Based on the various arguments up to this point, it > seems like no single field is going

USStateField (again)

2009-08-22 Thread James Bennett
So, the USStateField in contrib.localflavor got neutered a while back, removing a number of items from its choices list which -- while not actually US states -- are valid postal codes which the US Postal Service recognizes and considers as "US" addresses. When this happened, Django lost useful fun