Hello everyone, The resolution of https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30241 in https://github.com/django/django/commit/4400d8296d268f5a8523cd02ddc33b12219b2535 introduced a new and in my opinion backwards incompatible requirement through the system checks framework.
Previously*, overriding LANGUAGES to restrict the list of available languages on a Django site worked. Now it's also necessary to override LANGUAGES_BIDI because there is a new system check (translation.E005) which verifies that there are no language codes in LANGUAGES_BIDI not in LANGUAGES as well. It is my strong opinion that enforcing this does not provide any benefits and has the downside of forcing almost everyone who overrides LANGUAGES to now add a new setting to their project to override LANGUAGES_BIDI as well with unclear benefits. Strictness is a good thing, but since LANGUAGES_BIDI is only ever used for membership checking (and never iterated over) I don't see the problem in keeping the default language codes from django/conf/global_settings.py in there even though some of those languages may not be available on a given installation anyway. The report in https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30342 was closed as wontfix that's why I'm writing to the list. Also, since system checks generally aren't mentioned in the release notes users will not be informed ahead of time about this change when reading the release notes. Anyone has any opinions to offer on this? Thanks, Matthias * At least as long as I'm using Django, probably for 11 years or something. -- 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/CANvPqgAy_HytsvmnOpPtrCP_969QhoncJaPUe%3D6pN-VYWMVcjA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
