Hi folks, I recently released an alternative implementation of Django's existing class based views. The intention was to mirror the *exact* same set of functionality that we currently provide, but simplify the implementation and API. It's nothing cleverer or grander than a clean re-write, but the end result is *significantly* less complex. The class hierarchy is trivial, the API is much smaller, and the flow control is much more obvious.
I won't go into any more here, as there's plenty of detail in the documentation: http://django-vanilla-views.org There's also useful context in the related blog post, here: http://dabapps.com/blog/fixing-djangos-generic-class-based-views/ The difficult thing here really is that there's no obvious approach to introducing something like this in a backwards compatible way. It might be that we could take an incremental approach using the standard deprecation process, but given the nature of the GCBVs it'd likely be pretty awkward. There might be some bits of deprecation process we simply wouldn't be able to deal with in any sensible way, and we'd certainly end up with a seriously gnarly implementation during the deprecation period. I'd be interested in getting some opinions from folks on the following: * If a simpler GCBV implementation along the lines of django-vanilla-views is something we think we should working towards. * What approaches we might be able to take to dealing with backwards compatibility if we did want to do so. Thanks for your time. Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/fe19ddbc-a4d4-4dc0-a241-df45f6e73c96%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
