On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Adrian Holovaty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org > (mailto:ja...@jacobian.org)> wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > > > My point is that there is nothing about this problem that is unique to User. > > Django's own codebase contains another example of exactly the same pattern > > -- Comments. > > > > As the original author and designer of that pattern, I should probably point > > out that I now think it's a mistake. Have you actually tried using it? It > > doesn't really work very well. Every time I've introduced any sort of > > "swappable model" mechanism I've come to regret it. > > > > > Totally agree with Jacob here, plus Tai's comment that "There is such > a thing as too generic." We've made the mistake of making things too > generic in the past, and it's kind of infuriating in retrospect, both > philosophically and in terms of code maintenance/understanding. > (django/utils/tree.py, anyone??) > > I think our policy should be: make the simplest thing that can > possibly work for a narrowly-tailored use case, then make things more > generic *slowly* if there's a demand. No need to be an Architecture > Astronaut. > >
Not adding anything, just saying that Architecture Astronaut is the best term ever for this. > > Adrian > > -- > 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 > (mailto:django-developers@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto:django-developers+unsubscr...@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-developers@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.
