Re: [GSoC] Switching to Jinja2 proposal

2014-02-09 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
Hi Curtis, If true, this would certainly be a reasonable improvement. However, I'm not sure it would be a great GSoC project. This would have to be posed as a "optimise the template language" project, which is problematic when we don't know for certain ahead of time where the problems lie. We're

Re: [GSoC] Switching to Jinja2 proposal

2014-02-09 Thread Kevin Christopher Henry
Russell makes the very good point that Jinja2 isn't just a faster version of the Django template engine - it's philosophically at odds with the original design and intent of the Django template engine. Personally, I prefer Jinja2's approach and would love to see it become the standard. (The ben

Re: Why SlugField overrides get_internal_type()?

2014-02-09 Thread Val Neekman
Oh, I see. Thanks Carl. Val On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Carl Meyer wrote: > Hi Val, > > On 02/07/2014 04:07 PM, Val Neekman wrote: > > None of the other subclasses of CharField override get_internal_type() > > but the SlugField and I am wondering why? > > > > Class SlugField(CharField):