Hi Collin and Aymeric, On 11/03/2014 03:26 PM, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > Hi Collin, > > It’s exactly the right time to discuss APIs :-) > > After pondering your proposal, I'm still +0 on consistency with > DATABASES and CACHES, but I'll make that change if other people agree > with you. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? > > Thanks, > > -- > Aymeric. > > >> On 3 nov. 2014, at 01:50, Collin Anderson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hi Aymeric, >> >> Thanks for all of your work on this. Am I too late to discuss the >> settings? >> >> I don't see much advantage to the OPTIONS dict. It is consistent with >> DATABASES, and it separates the engine specific settings from the >> common settings. However, it doesn't seem like that helpful of a >> distinction to the user, especially considering there's only 3(?) >> non-OPTIONS settings. It seems like it only opens up the door to >> misconfiguration. Could we just pop-off the 3 common settings when >> configuring the template engine?
I favor keeping OPTIONS. I don't think OPTIONS will be significantly confusing to beginners (it may even provide a useful hedge between "the basics" and "the advanced knobs"). Once you are doing anything beyond the basics, the distinction between a setting that is handled specially by Django vs one that is just passed as-is to the template backend is an important distinction to keep clear. OPTIONS provides clear indication (without referencing the docs) which settings you can expect to provide to any template backend with equivalent effects, and which ones are engine-specific. I think losing this clear distinction is likely to result in much more mis-configuration frustration than OPTIONS will. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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/5458079E.70104%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
