Is djblets still useful with Django 1.2?

Question

I've just came around dbjlets which was released in 2008. It adds many useful functions, but it's also a big lumb of code.

Does it still make sense to use djblets in 2010, or have better alternatives emerged? I also suspect some features have been merged into Django.

I'm particulary interested in:

• auth - I guess django-registration addresses this?
• datagrid
• rooturl - allow easy deployment in a subfolder
• decorators - easier writing of blocktags, etc..
• JSONField - store random data.
• siteconfig - overlay settings.py with database settings

Answer 1

Since Djblets is still actively developed, I think it still has purpose:)

Link to the current repository: http://github.com/djblets/djblets

• auth: django-registration might be better for this, depends on your needs I suppose.
• datagrid: I don't know a single other decent datagrid app for Django, doesn't mean there are none. But I don't know them ;)
• rooturl: not sure if that's really that useful. I don't see much advantage in that compared to the normal url system.
• decorators: writing tags in Django is still a lot of work but this makes it quite easy. Definately worth it. Although Django has quite a few similar shortcuts these days.
• JSONField: can definately be handy, but a lot of the times the wrong solution ;)
• siteconfig: I believe that there are several projects that focus on this specifically, just find one that you like (or think of your own structure, which is what I did).

All in all it comes down to, do you find the extensions useful. Personally I think that the datagrid and the decorators are the most useful parts.

But instead of using decorators to make writing tags easier you could also try Jinja2 as a template parser which allows multiple and named arguments for filters. Or simply calling functions directly. That way you rarely need template tags.