Re: moving the class-based View base class out of django.views.generic?

2015-09-22 Thread John Paulett
Definitely seems like a good idea to me. Even as a frequent CBV user, it always takes me a few seconds to remember to import from generic. John Paulett On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Class-based view users, does this proposal fro

Re: Pre-DEP: community support of unmaintained versions of Django

2015-04-01 Thread John Paulett
Carl, your proposal sounds good to me. I would be happy to contribute to a DEP, if formalization of the process is necessary. Christian, let's coordinate to set up a public/private repo pair with the appropriate warnings and have one of us apply for the pre-release notifications (if you haven't

Re: Pre-DEP: community support of unmaintained versions of Django

2015-03-27 Thread John Paulett
James, thanks for putting this together. Christian, I am in a similar position, supporting 2.6 for the next 6-12 months. I had planned to keep a personal fork of Django 1.6, backporting security patches as needed, but I would be happy to contribute to a common effort in this regard. As

Re: #18659 -- Deprecating request.REQUEST

2013-10-16 Thread John Paulett
I'll chime in with a counterpoint. request.REQUEST can be helpful in limited cases when the server application simply does not care whether it is receiving data via a GET query string or x-www-form-urlencoded POST and a different clients can choose which form method is appropriate for its use

Re: call_command; add *.pyc and *.pyo files to commands list

2012-02-29 Thread John Paulett
Related tickets are #14952 and #12206. #14952 includes a possible patch, but marked as wontfix. However, I'm definitely +1 on adding support for pyc/pyo support for management commands. I understand the arguments against deploying bytecode-only, but it seems to work everywhere in Django, except

Re: Attach a technincal html response to email on server error

2011-11-13 Thread John Paulett
Sounds similar to what django-sentry already provides: http://blog.disqus.com/post/1178923988/django-sentry (we may want to move this discussion to django-users) On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Ric wrote: > oh fantastic... but i read about security issue... > >