What's this supposed to mean? If something is trivial to implement, it shouldn't be in the core? Tell me I'm reading it wrong, please, because I can think of 1000 reasons why this argument doesn't hold ground.
J. Leclanche / Adys On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@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<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > -- 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.
