Re: Why deprecate the ability to reverse using the Python path?

2015-04-16 Thread Marc Tamlyn
Hi Thomas, I appreciate your concern, and it's a significant change for your application, which is obviously very large and has been in development for some time. I've been involved with similarly painful processes such as the transition to the {% url %} tag requiring a string. First a note on th

Re: Why deprecate the ability to reverse using the Python path?

2015-04-16 Thread Florian Apolloner
Hi Thomas, On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 10:21:04 AM UTC+2, guettli wrote: > > I talked about this in our team. The pace is to fast. > FWIW, every feature changed/deprecated goes through the same (fast) cycle. If you need slower changes, please stay with LTS versions. Granted, you still have t

Re: Why deprecate the ability to reverse using the Python path?

2015-04-16 Thread Raphael Michel
Am Thu, 16 Apr 2015 01:21:04 -0700 (PDT) schrieb guettli : > We never jumped on the "give the URLs a name" wagon. Why don't you go with Tim's idea to implement a custom url() method to automatically give the views their path as URL names? This should be rather easy and you should be able to do the

Re: Why deprecate the ability to reverse using the Python path?

2015-04-16 Thread guettli
Dear Graham and django developers, I talked about this in our team. The pace is to fast. We have about thousand urls mappings that need to be changed to from reverse('mapp.views.foo.bar') to reverse(view_method). We never jumped on the "give the URLs a name" wagon. What do you gain be disablin