On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, dannyr <danny...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Alex, > > What's the rationale of including truncatewords into the core? How is > truncatewords different to truncate (characters)? > > On Dec 30, 12:29 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ok, we get it, some people want this feature. I'd like to kindly >> request that people just saying "+1" stop. The number of people in >> this thread is minuscule compared to the size of the django user >> population, trying to extrapolate from 1, 10, or even 100 people in >> this thread to a large percentage of the community wants this is >> simply not possible. >> >> The video I linked earlier had a critical point that I think a lot of >> people are missing, adding a single filter may not add a lot to the >> developer's burden directly but it impacts the perceptions (and >> realities) of what kinds of things are reasonable for inclusion in >> core. The simple fact is some people want this, and some don't. Not >> having this is not an intractable problem for people who need it, in >> fact it's a trivial one. >> >> I don't really care whether this is included or not, but it seems to >> me that there's very little in terms of new ground in the discussion. >> >> Alex >> >> -- >> "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your >> right to say it." -- Voltaire >> "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero >> "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you >> want" -- Me > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > >
Probably that truncate_words is *slightly* less trivial to implement. Plus it's been there since forever, removing it would be an extremely large backwards compatible change. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
