On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:22 PM, legutierr <leguti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why is help_text part of the field
> definition?  This is a ui-specific thing--what does it have to do with
> the database?  All abstractions are leaky, sure, but this seems
> inappropriate.  The same thing goes for editable, error_messages:
> these options are not part of the ORM, they are parts of the forms
> subsystem that have somehow ended up in the ORM.  Why should the ORM
> know anything about forms, or any other part of Django for that
> matter?

they're UI things, but forms aren't the only UI imaginable.

and, they're UI things that belong to the field.  not the database
field, but the model field.

-- 
Javier

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