I'd probably go with updating the documentation to say they're legacy
tags, you're better off using {% if %} now, and warn they may be
removed in a later release.This way (a) people are warned off it, and (b) we're confusing people who find it and want to check what it does [even though it's quite clear from the name] -- Curtis On 7 August 2015 at 13:05, Josh Smeaton <josh.smea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fair enough, I don't necessarily disagree with you. Would removing the > documentation for ifequal be OK? At least that would prevent new projects > from using it or being confused about multiple ways to compare values. > > On Friday, 7 August 2015 12:49:37 UTC+10, Karen Tracey wrote: >> >> We certainly weren't discussing removing without deprecating, were we? I'm >> saying removing isn't worth the hassle to users, period. My opinion from >> working on a fair number of inherited sites, plus sites where I don't get to >> choose who contributes code I'm responsible for maintaining. I've reported I >> have code I have to maintain written last year that uses these tags, it's >> not just ancient crufty old stuff. These tags don't cause a massive "brain >> stop" to figure out what "ifequal" might mean when encountering them in >> existing templates.They are not that bad. This wart isn't worth the pain to >> users to remove, in my opinion. Finding and fixing all templates used by a >> site is NOT trivial. Fixing url was worth it. This is not. >> >> > -- > 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 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/44ee5d1f-1071-4dd7-a1dd-fe798c0dc2de%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 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/CAG_XiSBPO35aTAemeP2%2BtFs2v-dacUHR3NiYoOFC8%3D4sYmgXhg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
