Re: Re: Call for comment: Forms/manipulator replacement, take 1

2006-10-28 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 10/28/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works for me. Acutally, we could kill two birds with one stone; check > your prototype in as django.newforms, and when we go live, tag 0.96, > move django.forms to django.oldforms, and django.newforms to > django.forms. I've checked in

Re: Re: Call for comment: Forms/manipulator replacement, take 1

2006-10-28 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 10/28/06, Nesta Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the scope of things this may actually be irrelevant at the > moment but I've created a patch that adds an exact_length option to > CharField. I am aware the same result can be had by setting max_length > and min_length to the same valu

Re: Comments system

2006-10-28 Thread Mike Thompson
+1 I like the simplicity and flexibility this approach provides. One question - if the "Comment" is generalized to become a vehicle for any user-supplied attribute (text comment, tag/label, star rating, etc.) to an arbitrary contenttype, I can see having several "Comment" (sub)classes that can d

Re: Re: Call for comment: Forms/manipulator replacement, take 1

2006-10-28 Thread Nesta Campbell
Hello All, Given the scope of things this may actually be irrelevant at the moment but I've created a patch that adds an exact_length option to CharField. I am aware the same result can be had by setting max_length and min_length to the same value. Patch attached. Cheers. On 10/28/06, Russell Ke

Re: Re: Call for comment: Forms/manipulator replacement, take 1

2006-10-28 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 10/28/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/27/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out my latest version (which I attached to another message to > this thread). It lets you pass a 'widget' parameter to any Field to > designate the default widget. It can

Re: Akismet is playing up

2006-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently Akismet is having a hard time at the moment. Someone's dumping a major spam run at the moment (Akismet had to deal with ~3m spam posts in one day a few days ago), and this possibly took down typepad briefly. Aside - Akismet is probably a nice example of a single point of failure, it de

Re: Call for comment: Forms/manipulator replacement, take 1

2006-10-28 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 10/27/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I'm not so keen on the combination of Field.widget with the > hardcoded as_text, as_textarea approach suggested by the commented > sections of BoundField. I would suggest that these methods are > describing which widget should