Is it the project still alive? Django 3 support? about django-betterforms HOT 18 OPEN

@BismeetSingh I personally have the following in my requirements.txt:

django-betterforms-jpic==1.2.2

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I'm not a fan of backward compatibility, I proposed it beacuse I've seen the project is not being updated from long. I supposed that maybe it is widely used by "ancient" project.

I don't think that my opinion count much but I've seen that you have made a pull request and I'm really glad!

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We apologize for letting this project stagnate for so long. We will be releasing version 2.0 in the near future, which supports Django 3.x and 4.0 and we hope to maintain it more actively going forward.

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Not sure if it's really worth maintaining backward compatibility: the releases for Python 2 work great, upstream is stable and in the worst case there will be a minor patch release once a year until Red Hat completely drops Python 3.

What do you think ?

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Any news on this?

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@bluesurfer a pull request has been created thanks to @jpic
Sorry but I'm not sure how pull request in public project works so I don't know when it will be closed!

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Yep, meanwhile I use a fork package that includes the said patches, you can use it to if you want it's django-betterforms-jpic

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@jpic You might wanna update the details in your fork - PyPI links to the wrong repository, has the wrong install instructions in the readme, lists the wrong Django versions as supported, etc.

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@Asday it's just meant as a temporary solution, perhaps the repo owners should transfer the repo to JazzBand and move on to whatever they are maintaining now.

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How to use the temporary fork? I tried uninstalling the original and installing the fork. I then get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'betterforms' if I put betterforms in INSTALLED_APPS. It used to work fine without this setting, using the original project, so I tried removing it, but then neither import betterforms.form nor import betterforms.multiform work.

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@verngutz Worth opening an issue on @jpic's repo, but personally I didn't have that issue at all. When you make the issue, make sure you include your requirements.txt and all relevant code snippets.

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Honnestly I just changed the requirements from django-betterforms to https://github.com/jpic/django-betterforms/tarball/master and without changing any code it works for me.

Does it work in a new virtual environment ?

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Welp. Silly me. I installed @jpic's fork first before uninstalling the original one. So of course, since they both went into the same folder in site-packages, the uninstallation removed everything. The egg-info remains, telling pip that the requirement is still satisfied even though it isn't, so this took me a while to figure out.

(Probably shouldn't have done it manually and instead let pip install -r handle it.)

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Better to require django-betterforms-jpic in your requirements. It has the same named module so no code changes are required, but it's a different package, so pip does the right thing.

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I uninstalled django-betterforms and installed django-betterforms-jpic instead. Now I get the following error: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'django-betterforms' distribution was not found and is required by the application.

Any ideas how to fix this?

(or: has anyone found a better solution how to use class based views for multiple models and forms?)

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The -jpic version works if you install it with git, I've removed
django-betterforms dependency from my project (crudlfap) so I won't be
doing nor expecting anything else on this, sorry.

exactly - it's the best solution

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I uninstalled django-betterforms and installed django-betterforms-jpic instead. Now I get the following error: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'django-betterforms' distribution was not found and is required by the application.

Any ideas how to fix this?

use the solution from @jpic - install it from git
Answering why this happens: @jpic by providing alternative pip package made an error, his package named django-betterforms-jpic, but in code he left the old name, so package resolver can't find it.

https://github.com/jpic/django-betterforms/blob/40da7eee2a1b1d9d026a16dbe56b1270c0f859cc/betterforms/__init__.py#L1

__version__ = __import__('pkg_resources').get_distribution('django-betterforms').version

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How do I install jpic from git?

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