Request: initialize fields with built-in class defaults

2015-06-14 Thread Bobby Mozumder
Hi all, Here’s an issue of usability that if fixed could make usage of custom fields simpler. Right now fields don’t allow a built-in defaults, and you need to explicitly set the default parameter for model fields. The problem is that this adds a ton of boilerplate code. Using the Polls tuto

Re: Tips on adding a Couchbase backend

2015-06-14 Thread Götz Bürkle
Hi Mark, Maybe the work done to support Google App Engine and its Datastore could also be useful for you. You can find more information about that project on https://github.com/potatolondon/djangae and http://djangae.readthedocs.org/en/latest/db_backend/ Cheers, Goetz -- You received this messa

Re: Tips on adding a Couchbase backend

2015-06-14 Thread Aymeric Augustin
On 14 juin 2015, at 20:23, mnunberg...@gmail.com wrote: > It would only be worthwhile trying to make a proper database-engine if the > rest of django would support it: Specifically, any kind of data modification > using SQL is currently unsupported This is an well defined limitation. If you can

Re: Tips on adding a Couchbase backend

2015-06-14 Thread mnunberg740
Thanks for the advice. I imagine the emailer example is a way to show how to make something that’s not really a Django model into a Django model (similar to what Cassandra does). Interesting point about not supporting the ecosystem - but the question is how much of the ecosystem (rough estimate

Re: how long to support Python 3.3?

2015-06-14 Thread Collin Anderson
Some more data points (to support removing 3.3 support): I believe old versions of RHEL were the reason people needed 2.6 support. Unlike 2.6, I believe RHEL has never supported Python 3 except through "Software Collections", and the Python33 software collection EOL is Oct 2016 (before 1.8 supp