Django 1.2 planned features. The votes are in and the plan for Django 1.2 has taken shape—features are split in to high, medium and low priority. There’s some really exciting stuff in there—outside of the things I’ve already talked about, I’m particularly excited about multidb, Model.objects.raw(SQL), the smarter {% if %} tag and class-based generic views.
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mmmm class based generic views.
Also that pesky not having multi-db thing sunk 2 really big projects for me. Then the PHB thought Python was no good and went PHP! Talk about an over reaction.
Dace K - 26th October 2009 16:54 - #
Looks like a few of these are Template related -- why not just integrate with Jinja2 and call it done?
slacy - 26th October 2009 17:02 - #
Looks like you found a post related to Django -- why not just shout Jinja2 Jinja2 Jinja2 all over it?
(I'm sure I'm not the only person who, exposed to the name of that template library exclusively - and incessantly - by comment trolls, is not remotely disposed to looking at it.)
Wow, chill out dude.
I'm just saying that a lot of the new template features that they're adding / incorporating into Django seem to already be in Jinja. I'm not a comment troll, I'd actually just like to hear some musings from "The Source" (I.e. Simon & Jacob) about why continued parallel development between Django Templates and Jinja2 Templates would be a good thing.
slacy - 27th October 2009 00:07 - #
@slacy,
The gist of the argument from the BDFLs (Jacob and Adrian, I don't think Simon took on that role) is that Jinja2 and Django Templates fill different needs.
From the Django Pony's mouth:
huxley - 27th October 2009 00:18 - #
@slacy: There is this thing called backwards compatibility. Every single incompatibility between the two systems is a pretty much a 'killer' for the idea of just using Jinja.
http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/documentation/faq#how-com patible-is-jinja2-with-django
What happened to secure cookies? It's not present anywhere.
I think it would be a good feature to have. It would also be interesting to do things like implement the user messages api using secure cookies rather than storing them in the database.
Ian: it's there, it's just under "Medium Priority" - which means I need to do some more advocacy (and write a bunch more code).
The smarter if tag is the one i wanted most!
brisbane - 28th October 2009 13:08 - #