On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:16 +0400, Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > Julien Phalip wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For months, there has been a mention in the url tag's documentation: > > > > "Note that the syntax for this tag may change in the future, as we > > make it more robust." [1] > > > > Is that mention still relevant for 1.0 and beyond? > > If I recall correctly, there was a discussion that the first parameter > should be changed to work like most other parameters to tags: treat it > literally if it's quoted, otherwise look it up in context. The objection > was that potential benefit wasn't worth the hassle of a backwards > incompatible change. But I can't remember if there was a final decision.
The couple of times I brought it up, it died from a lack of core developers really caring that much. I thought it would have been a good idea to change it originally. I think it would be a bad idea to change it now, since it's been in use for so long. If somebody wants to use variables in a url-like tag, it's trivial to write your own variant. We're not hurting anybody's software too much by not making the change, although it would have been nice to do so for consistency. I suspect that unless Adrian or Jacob pipe up in the very near future with agreement to change it, we can remove that note because the current API will be set in stone. Malcolm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
