Re: Semantics of subtyping

2005-09-26 Thread Robert Wittams
Jason Davies wrote: > Robert Wittams wrote: > > [snip] > > >>The other form of subtyping - ( ie is-a relationship) available, is the >>one-to-one field. This makes a set of fields an extension to another >>object. The way this is generated in django is to add >>get_ to each instance of the supe

Re: Semantics of subtyping

2005-09-26 Thread Jason Davies
Robert Wittams wrote: [snip] > The other form of subtyping - ( ie is-a relationship) available, is the > one-to-one field. This makes a set of fields an extension to another > object. The way this is generated in django is to add > get_ to each instance of the supertype. A base type > can have a

Re: Discussions in Trac

2005-09-26 Thread Maniac
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: However, please note that there are two of us with commit privileges, and almost 200 open tickets; please be patient! Thank you for clarification!

Semantics of subtyping

2005-09-26 Thread Robert Wittams
I have been thinking about the way subtyping (inheritance) works in django. Currently (correct me if I am wrong), a model class that inherits from another model class is treated as a copy of its supertype. This means it makes a copy of all the fields and methods, possibly suppressing, and can al

Re: Discussions in Trac

2005-09-26 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 9/26/05, Maniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So here are my questions: > - what is the best way to discuss decisions in tickets and proposing > patches? (I come from bugzilla.mozilla.org background where patches are > mainly discussed in bugs' comments) > - am I doing something wrong? If yes, p

Re: Discussions in Trac

2005-09-26 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Sep 26, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Maniac wrote: I'm a little confused about practices of working with Trac in Django community and decided to ask here. [snip] So here are my questions: - what is the best way to discuss decisions in tickets and proposing patches? (I come from bugzilla.mozilla

Discussions in Trac

2005-09-26 Thread Maniac
Hi! I'm a little confused about practices of working with Trac in Django community and decided to ask here. First, some history: Some time ago I made a patch for ticket 440 (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/440) introducing a new config parameter for default charset. This parameter was