Re: [Repost][GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-04-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > I'm a CS student from India and am planning to apply for this year's > GSoC to work on Django. I've worked on several django based websites > ([1][2] + 1 yet to be released) and flirted around with other Python > Web

Re: [Repost][GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-04-01 Thread burc...@gmail.com
Hi Yuvi Panda, As far I can remember, Django GSoC goal is to make Django itself stronger. Not to make just one more external project. And, actually, I don't see a point of ripping out Django ORM. I see a point in ripping out templates or forms, so they don't need to use settings.py... but ORM is

[Repost][GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-04-01 Thread Yuvi Panda
I'm a CS student from India and am planning to apply for this year's GSoC to work on Django. I've worked on several django based websites ([1][2] + 1 yet to be released) and flirted around with other Python Web Frameworks too (Tornado, web.py, etc) My project idea is to rip out the Django ORM so

Re: [GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-03-12 Thread Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
Yes I understood it was not necessarily the plan to split everything, but for me I thought it could be a good start. Is there anything that could block us to do it (Yes i know it's not a priority) ? On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > @Mathieu: I don't

Re: [GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-03-12 Thread Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
It would be very very cool to have the orm separated from everything else ! And by the way, there could be some other cool possibilities as: - Bug fix of separated component and not all the framework unnecessary - You just install what you need, by example, I've just on a project without any

Re: [GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-03-12 Thread Yuvi Panda
Besides the smaller dependency, it can be more easily integrated into other frameworks. No manage.py, settings.py, etc, so you can integrate settings, management, etc with the rest of the target framework. It would be cleaner. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Dougal Matthews

Re: [GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-03-12 Thread Dougal Matthews
On 12 March 2010 12:51, Yuvi Panda wrote: > I'm a CS student from India and am planning to apply for this year's GSoC > to work on Django. > > My project idea is to rip out the Django ORM so it could be used outside > django. django.db will be isolated (ie. dependencies on

[GSoC] Making django.db usable outside Django

2010-03-12 Thread Yuvi Panda
I'm a CS student from India and am planning to apply for this year's GSoC to work on Django. My project idea is to rip out the Django ORM so it could be used outside django. django.db will be isolated (ie. dependencies on other parts of django will be cut or folded back into django.db), and