On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Adrian Holovaty <adr...@holovaty.com> > wrote: > > I'd like to move all Django localflavor code into a separate package, > > distributed separately from Django the framework. > > +1. I've had the exact same thought myself over the past couple of > years. My hesitation historically has been the limitations of the > Python packaging environment, but we've pretty much reached the point > with pip et al where that isn't a serious impediment any more. > > > PROPOSED SOLUTION > > > > I think it makes most sense for there to be country-specific packages, > > such as django-forms-us or django-forms-es, that are distributed > > independently. These would be very easy to install (via pip), and > > people outside of the Django core team could maintain them and take > > full responsibility for them. > > I agree that this is certainly one way that we could address the > problem. However, localflavor isn't just forms. Some of the packages > (US in particular; and I think there's also a patch lurking for AU) > have database models as well. I'd be inclined to keep the > 'localflavor' moniker. > > Also, from a project management point of view, there's the issue of > translations. At present, there's a single locale directory that > contains all the translations for all the localflavors. If we break > out localflavor into separate installable directories, we probably > don't want to break them into 40 different locale directories. I won't > profess any particular expertise on translations, so there might be an > obvious and elegant solution that I'm missing, but I wanted to flag it > so that it's kept in mind. > > I don't think that's correct, they have model *fields*, but no actual models. > Russ %-) > > -- > 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. > > Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero -- 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.
