Generic Views: Inconsistancy of context variable for date_based views.

[evan <at> binarymanipulations <dot> com]

The context variable that archive_index uses for the list of objects differs from the other date_based generic views, such as archive_month, archive_day, archive_year and object_list. Archive_index uses 'latest' as its context variable while the others archive_month, archive_year et cetera use 'object_list' for their context variables.

It would be much easier if they all had the same context variable so you could use a for loop in a base-template for all of the different generic views.

[Chris Beaven]

There's the worry about backwards compatibility. Perhaps archive_index could provide both the old 'latest' context variable and the common 'object_list' variables.

[Collin Grady <cgrady@…>]

woops, forgot docs on the last patch

[Collin Grady <cgrady@…>]

Though it is still pre-1.0, so backwards incompatible changes can be made :)

[Jacob]

Yes, we're OK with backwards-incompat changes pre-1.0, but there needs to be a good reason for the change. I'd prefer a slight inconsistency to breaking a bunch of people's code.