On 2/22/06, Luke Plant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:57, Nick Phillips wrote: > > > "Bugger. NameError at /admin/foo/bar/person/1/delete/ > > global name 'ObjectDoesNotExist' is not defined. What have I let > > myself in for here? I mean, does anyone actually *run* this magic- > > removal stuff?" > > > > > > If it weren't for the fact that I need to get this running pronto, > > I'd be holding off and waiting for magic-removal to stabilise. > > Knowing what I do now, I don't know whether I'd use magic-removal -- > > damned if I do, damned if I don't. > > > > So yes, you're absolutely right. And my timing is, as usual, awful. > > I guess it is kind of inevitable that a branch in which lots of syntax > changes are going on, and is a continual moving target, isn't going to > attract lots of of users. And because it doesn't have many users, > progress is slow etc. I apologise for my part that I haven't had the > time to finish off all I've wanted to (although most stuff is actually > done -- Adrian did a lot of it, and I think the bulk of the descriptor > syntax changes were done in week, but things have stagnated since > then). > > I think it's important that people start migrating apps and trying it > out though, but probably not people with deadlines! In the spare time > I've had, I've been alternating between hacking on Django and migrating > my app, and it has thrown up lots of things and driven development > forward. But finding people who have both the time to do that and > enough skill to track down problems and contribute patches to the ORM > (which is the scariest part of the code) is problematic. (Don't > misunderstand me -- I was amazed how quickly I got productive on the > ORM, and it's all down to how very well written it is, but it is > nonetheless not the easiest part).
You are right. I'v read the ORM part before, but it seems many magic things waiting for me, I couldnot grasp the whole things and understand it clearly. And admin is same to me. Last time, I made a patch about manipulator, but you said that it has something need more considered, so I don't know how to enhance it. And the problem is still existed. > > For now, if you have deadlines then trunk is the way to go (yep, bad > timing for that advice, sorry). While migration will be a bit of a > pain and tedious, it will at least be reasonably straightforward. > > Sorry for the difficulties you've had, > > Regards, > > Luke > -- I like python! My Blog: http://www.donews.net/limodou NewEdit Maillist: http://groups.google.com/group/NewEdit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
