On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 11:55 -0600, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: [...] > So what I'm looking for here is some insight from folks that have > already looked at this ticket. What are the with the current patch? > Are there simpler ways? What types of breakage should I be looking > for? Is there anything out on one of the branches that I'm going to > fubar if I start working on this?
Jumping in a little late here, but the things I remember thinking about (and discussing briefly with Adrian when he described his plan to me) is that app_label collisions are often only the tip of the iceberg in some respect. They also tend to be an indicator of upcoming template directory name collisions -- for example if you use the templates/<app_name>/* convention -- and custom templatetag name collisions. None of those problems are in any way insurmountable, but we need to think through what will work practically for those situations. For example, the template app_loader, if it remains, should not use the "label", in Adrian's scheme, to load the template because that would mean an application cannot load its own templates (it won't know what its own label will be because that is set by the user at installation time and unknown to the app writer). I think we're probably fine here: app_loader continues to just merge all template directories at the top level and application writers still strive for unique names for their template directories (or stop using app_loader, which is something I've been tending towards more and more lately). I haven't thought about this problem a lot lately, since I knew Adrian, Vinay and Joseph were all thinking about it and was happy to leave it in their capable hands. Regards, Malcolm -- Works better when plugged in. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
