On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Will Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > is anyone planning to write, or has anyone already written a script to > help people convert their oldforms-admin to newforms-admin? ... > Would this be useful enough to include in django itself?
If someone wants to write such a tool, they're welcome to do so, but I doubt it would get committed into Django itself. Firstly, any given project will need to run this exactly once. It isn't a tool we're going to need to maintain long term, especially as the admin app evolves into the future. As such, it's not really appropriate for inclusion in trunk. Secondly, completely automated conversion tools are difficult to get 100% right. By putting a conversion tool into the distribution, we'd be implicitly saying "this tool works, and if it doesn't work we'll fix it". The resources it would take to maintain such a script would vastly outweigh the benefits that would be obtained by having it. That isn't to say that a 'helper' tool - something to get you 80% of the way - wouldn't be valuable. If a good conversion tool or tools were to materialize, I'd be surprised if they weren't mentioned in a release note somewhere. However, there is a world of difference between us saying "here's a link to a script that might help you convert" in release notes, and "here's an official script that will do the conversion for you". Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
