Hey all, I'm a (roughly) mid-level Python coder, and newly interested in Django. I work at a university library on a library archive digitization project. We have a large collection, with several thousand heterogenous documents (ranging in size and format from letters to books, interviews and posters), and are looking at the possibility of retro-fitting our database to a Django framework.
One missing feature, which would be very helpful for our project is the ability to specify column names in the ManyToManyField definitions. There is a ticket (#785) that addresses this issue, with an attached patch. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/785 The patch was marked as needing improvement, then revised to address many of the issues raised about it, but no comments have been forthcoming on the revision since May of this year. I successfully applied the patch to a 0.96 django installation, and was able to successfully model one of our smaller databases using the features added by the patch. This is functionality that would be very useful for me, and I'd be willing to put in work to see it get into the trunk, but I'm not sure what the next step would be. I've created an account, and I'm happy to claim the ticket, but I'm not sure what to do to get things moving toward inclusion. One proposal for revision to the patch, that I'd like to toss out for discussion: It currently proposes adding two optional attributes: db_self_column and db_related_column, for specifying the names of the two foreign key fields in the many to many table. Should we also add a third attribute, perhaps called db_key_column or db_pk_column, for specifying the name of the primary key column? Cheers, Cliff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
