Cool. The Backwards Incompatibility Changes list is handy. Maybe you can add a link of it to the guide. So people know where to look.
On Dec 22, 11:42 am, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Russell <yufe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.0-porting-guide/ > > > The guide didn't mention the change in > > django.datastructure.MultiValueDict which affects QueryDict directly > > and request.POST and request.GET eventually. The change is minor, but > > critical: MultiValueDict.iteritems() returns (key, last_value) instead > > of (key, [values]). > > > I've paid painful price to find out the cause of my borken data and > > hope this could be written in the guide explicitly and save people > > some time. > > The guide covers the common (and less common, in two different sections) > changes needed to port code from 0.96 to 1.0. It's meant as an aid to those > who have code which needs only the more common changes, and does not attempt > to be an exhaustive list of things that might need to be changed. Rather it > points to the release notes, which in turn point to the complete list of > backwards-incompatible changes from 0.96 to 1.0. There the change you note > is documented: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges#Corre... > > The problem with the full list is it is overwhelming for people who only > need to make the more common changes, so the guide was developed. But then > the problem with the guide is that it doesn't cover everything. But if it > covered everything, it would become the full list and again be rather > overwhelming for people who really only need to know about the common > things. > > Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
