RFC: Asynchronous Signal Receivers

2009-01-03 Thread zvoase
Hi Developers, Basically, I wanted to ask for some devel's opinions on something. When using the Django signals framework (which, by the way, is a very good way of decoupling reusable apps whilst allowing for deep integration), I sometimes find that a signal receiver does not need to be called

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread Brantley Harris
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Brantley Harris wrote: >> Ah yes, this is definitely a problem. See, I had to be able to import >> based on a string (database backend), and I was having problems doing >> so without an absolute impor

Re: Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic)

2009-01-03 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
WTF? couchdb and MySQL are intended for totally different purposes... which one is "better" depends on what you are trying to do. -jasper On 4/01/2009, at 10:08 AM, mobil wrote: > > Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic) > > > http://pylab.blogspot.com/2009/01/ten-reasons-why-couc

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Brantley Harris wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> If there is some technical reason why the django.contrib namespace is >> required, then raise that issue on the developers list and we can see >> what we can do to break tha

Re: Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic)

2009-01-03 Thread alex.gay...@gmail.com
This is not the place for this, this mailing list is for the development of Django itself, quite frankly it really isn't appropriate for django-users either. Alex On Jan 3, 3:08 pm, mobil wrote: > Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic) > > http://pylab.blogspot.com/2009/01/ten-reaso

Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic)

2009-01-03 Thread mobil
Ten reasons why couchdb is better than (off topic) http://pylab.blogspot.com/2009/01/ten-reasons-why-couchdb-is-better-than.html Guys I wrote up a small list of reasons why i think couchdb is way bettter than mysql. Do let me know what you think -- Gpirate the top torrent search engine http

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread Brantley Harris
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > In the aftermath of DjangoCon [1], Simon Willison, Andrew Godwin and > myself started the django-migrations SIG [2], with the aim of getting > a migrations framework into the Django core that draws from the best > parts of our three res

Re: fixing broken file locking on exotic filesystems

2009-01-03 Thread rndblnch
On 20 déc 2008, 21:52, rndblnch wrote: > hi, > > some times ago, i created a ticket for a bug in file locking on my > system (volume mounted with appletalk on a mac) [0]. > after a first proposal for fixing the bug (with patch), i asked for > feedback and got some [1]. > i then proposed another

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread Andrew Godwin
Russ has made some good points, but I feel a need to chime in anyway! Brantley Harris wrote: > The idea is a database migration system that: > * Is simple. > * Doesn't make you use sql. This is an orm, we shouldn't have to use sql. > As Russ said, there's a need for SQL, and his point

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Brantley Harris wrote: > > Having not been content with the state of Django migrations systems, > I've created one of my own: > > http://www.bitbucket.org/DeadWisdom/migratory/ In the aftermath of DjangoCon [1], Simon Willison, Andrew Godwin and myself started the

Re: Django Migrations

2009-01-03 Thread zvoase
To begin with, my first impressions are that it's a really good solution, and I'm interested to see how it shapes up in production apps :) I'm slightly concerned with having to link to it from django.contrib. This is generally regarded as a bad idea, mainly because it makes it difficult to get up