Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Collin Anderson wrote: > Hi All, > > Based on the early feedback, here's a scaled back proposal: > > 1. In the project_template settings.py for new projects: > - Enable the request context processor > - Keep the auth context processor > - Remove the rest (you can

Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Josh Smeaton
>From my experience some reusable apps require (in their documentation) that specific context_processors are installed. I'm also -0 unless some decent alternative exists and there's a convincing argument why they aren't a good feature to have. Cheers On Sunday, 11 January 2015 14:33:44 UTC+11,

Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi All, Based on the early feedback, here's a scaled back proposal: 1. In the project_template settings.py for new projects: - Enable the request context processor - Keep the auth context processor - Remove the rest (you can always install them by hand). 2. Make the admin work without needing spe

Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 6:40 AM, Collin Anderson wrote: > Hi All, > > In talking to Aymeric and other developers, we're starting to think about > the usefulness of global template context_processors. It seems to us that > ideally you should only need the "request" context processor. You could > e

Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Marc Tamlyn
I like it from a purity point of view, but I'm dreading updating through it and replacing every instance of `{{ STATIC_URL }}` in my templates... I also have a number of small projects which add a custom context processor which add a certain queryset into the context every time because they form a

Re: Multiple template engines for Django - week 13

2015-01-10 Thread Aymeric Augustin
Hello, Here’s episode 14: https://myks.org/en/multiple-template-engines-for-django/#2015-01-11 Hopefully I’ll reach the point where I don’t have enough material to write a weekly update by the end of February :-) -- Aymeric. > On 4 janv. 2015, at 00:23, Aymeric Augustin > wrote: > > Hello

simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-10 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi All, In talking to Aymeric and other developers, we're starting to think about the usefulness of global template context_processors. It seems to us that ideally you should only need the "request" context processor. You could even imagine removing context_processors all together and having re

Re: documenting changes to the database backend API

2015-01-10 Thread Michael Manfre
For completeness, I'm Michael Manfre and have been the maintainer of Django-mssql [1] for the last 6+ years. Future releases of Django-mssql will officially support a single version of Django. Support for legacy versions of Django will be maintained if it requires little effort. Work on Django 1.8

Re: documenting changes to the database backend API

2015-01-10 Thread Ola Sitarska
Hi Tim! At Potato we're developing Djangae: https://github.com/potatolondon/djangae, which is a database backend for supporting Google App Engine datastore. We're currently only supporting 1.6, but we're about to start development of 1.7 support. Thanks! Ola On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Tim G