That's what I gathered from the various tidbits of information, but I will try looking at the archives.
It's a shame, because it was a fantastic idea. Even to this day, it's pretty hard to properly customize form elements. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Carl Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > On 05/01/2013 10:52 AM, Nicolas Bouliane wrote: > > I have done as suggested and submitted my proposal in the mailing list. > > I heard about the Google Summer of Code /very/ recently, but hopefully > > I'll be able to submit an accurate and sensible proposal on time! > > > > Coincidentally, I am also proposing changes to the Forms API, and I must > > say it is very hard to find more information about the 2011 GSoC project > > and the reason of its failure. Is there a better source than the commit > > log to learn more about it? > > Probably searching the archives of this mailing list during that summer > would be your best option. > > I was the mentor for that GSoC project, and the reason for its failure > is that the Django template language proved too slow for the > template-based system we proposed for rendering form widgets and form > layouts; form-rendering speed suffered by an order of magnitude in some > cases. There was another GSoC project that summer to speed up the > template language and for a time we'd hoped that would provide a > solution, but that project also failed in the end. > > Carl > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/xrP6-Fx0Jbs/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- *Nicolas Bouliane* (450) 577-1663 ยท nicolasbouliane.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
