On 5/3/06, falcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if you could say a few more words about why you think such a > system will be abused? As far as I can tell, the models.py interface > is simple enough to be ported completely to the web (it doesn't look > like models.py is where you put complicated logic). If anything, users > could receive immediate feedback rather than having typos or syntax > errors show up when only when they try to load the page (as I'm going > through right now).
Well, the first thing that occurs to me is to comment on your use of the word "users"; "users" should *not* be creating new models. This isn't developer arrogance coming through, just a recognition that most places are going to have people who can think in terms of object relationships (and, more importantly, in terms of fields and relations in an RDBMS) and come to the most efficient solution more quickly; these people are called "developers" and, if anything, they're more comfortable in a text editor than in a web interface. Also, developers are more likely than anyone else to know what sorts of fields and object types are available across the base of installed applications and, thus, what to take advantage of in designing new models; for example, on a news site a user might not realize that a "video clip" model exists already, and so might create a new type of story which takes the URL to a video clip instead of a foreign key to a video-clip model, while the developer would (one hopes) know this and be able to leverage the relational model more effectively. Going further, it seems to me that, rather than encouraging the design of good, well-thought-out models, building models through a web interface would encourage a slapdash "if we get it wrong we'll just go into the web interface and change it" mentality, which would be a certifiable Bad Thing(TM). -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
