Long-term direction for shortcuts

2009-08-02 Thread Brent Hagany
Hello Django devs, The issue of making shortcuts better (and decreasing the number of imports in views.py files) was brought up at DjangoCon, and now that 1.1 is out the door, I would like to spark some discussion on what direction (if any) Django should take on the subject. (Relevant video here

Re: Proposal: user-friendly API for multi-database support

2008-09-12 Thread Brent Hagany
Simon, that's great! I think I can overlook the hackiness in my excitement. I am in your debt. On Sep 12, 5:18 pm, Simon Willison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 12, 7:45 pm, Brent Hagany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As far as I can tell, the argument about

Re: Proposal: user-friendly API for multi-database support

2008-09-12 Thread Brent Hagany
Now I'm nobody special, and I probably don't even belong in this group, but I do want to voice my support for this part of the original proposal: > Dealing with single queries that span multiple databases > > Once you have different tables