On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Waldemar Kornewald <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > On 6 Feb., 11:34, Russell Keith-Magee <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would suggest to you that the broader project of "modifying the >> django.db.models interface to be fully independent of SQL" is much >> more likely to get core developer support. We (the Django core) will >> be very receptive to any suggestions on how django.db.models needs to >> be modified in order to support non-SQL backends -- especially if you >> can demonstrate that your suggestions aren't just theoretical, but are >> clearly required by an actual backend implementation. > > Agreed, making models SQL-independent is the most important (and most > complicated) part. Do the people secretly working on App Engine > integration try to implement that part?
I haven't seen their code, so I can't say for certain, but I imagine that they have a small collection of patches for the main Django tree that enables their backend to be independent of SQL. >> If you are maintaining an external project handling AppEngine support >> for Django, then that project's wiki is the right place for >> documentation about AppEngine support within Django. While AppEngine >> support isn't part of Django's core, Django's wiki isn't the right >> place to be providing AppEngine specific instructions - especially if >> the first instruction is "install this third party project that isn't >> formally affiliated with the Django project at this time". > > I can't find anything like that in my wiki page. It describes what is > necessary for a completely new port that has practically nothing to do > with app-engine-patch apart from being able to reuse some of the > existing code. It could be useful for any porting effort. If I keep it > in my wiki nobody else can work on that page. It's almost useless that > way. Ok - sounds like they could be some good contributions. I just wanted to make sure you were not planning on making the Django wiki the home of the "how to use app-engine-patch" documentation. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
