Auto-reload, and many new tweaks
Seen our project timeline lately? It's irrefutable proof we've been constantly tweaking and improving Django. Some changes, as of late:
- The built-in development server now auto-reloads code when you refresh pages. No more having to restart the server when you make changes to your Python code! Special thanks to Jason Huggins for the patch.
- Speaking of the development server, it'll automatically serve admin media (images, CSS, JavaScript) for you. No more having to set up Apache just for those media files during development.
meta.Admin.fieldsis now optional. By default, it'll use all editable fields in your model. Of course, you can still override it if you want fine-grained control over how your dynamically-generated admin forms look.- We've added explicit mod_python documentation.
- We've added
django-admin.py createsuperuseras a helpful utility. - We've made all sorts of tweaks and improvements to error messages, to make things as friendly and helpful as possible. (Speaking of friendly and helpful, have you been to the #django IRC channel yet?)
All of these improvements came within the last 48 hours. Most of them came today.
These changes are backward-compatible -- but please keep in mind that there's no guarantee of backwards compatibility until our first official release. Now's the time to suggest non-backwards-compatible changes, before we go into backwards-compatibility mode. Make suggestions on the django-developers mailing list.
Stay tuned, and get involved: Much more improvements and tweaks are on the way.
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