On 05/11/2016 11:30 AM, Tim Graham wrote: > I'm not sure about how common the need for custom widget templates are. > Speaking for djangoproject.com and a few other small projects I > maintain, I don't think these projects would make use of them but maybe > if the feature is there, I might realize it would help in some places.
It's certainly not always needed; maybe "basic" is too strong a word. Better to say that it's a very useful intermediate technique, especially for more complex widgets with detailed UI needs. We're not only talking about overriding templates for built-in widgets, we're also talking about the ability to define your own custom widgets with their own templates. If only the built-in widget templates are available, you can't do that either. So given that templating is now the norm for how to build widgets, we'd effectively be making it impossible to create your own widget classes without changing the default form renderer. I'd flip it around and make the comparison with "standalone use of the forms library without a configured TEMPLATES setting," which seems to be the competing feature: is that really _more_ common than custom form widgets? How many projects do you maintain that need that? > What's your proposal for changing the default TEMPLATES? Using Jinja2 or > DTL? At some point maybe we can adopt Jinja2 as a required dependency. Until then, the default startproject template can't use it, so I think DTL is the only real option. > Since others have supported the idea, feel free to push your ideas to > the branch -- I won't be working on that branch for the rest of today. Ok, will do. 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 django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/57337178.5040003%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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