Cookiecutter-django: Replace awesome-slugify

[hongquan]

• *I'm submitting a ... *

  • [x] feature request

• Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

I don't know if this one is feature or bug.

• What is the current behavior?

_cookiecutter-django_ is using awesome-slugify as dependency for new Django project, which requires to have very old _Unidecode_ (<0.05) while current one is 1.0.22.

• What is the expected behavior?

Please drop use of _awesome-slugify_.

• What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Replace _awesome-slugify_ with something more up-to-date will help Django project generated by _cookiecutter-django_ up-to-date with new libraries.

[browniebroke]

Thanks for the report. Looking at the release history for Unidecode, a requirement of <0.05 is not _that old_, it will install a release from Jun 2017. Is it causing any specific problems on your end?

I can see there is an issue open in awesome-slugify for lifting this restriction... Rather than dropping this dependency in cookiecutter-django, maybe it would be better to fix it upstream, in awesome-slugify? Have you tried submitting a pull request to the project?

Even if we drop this dependency, we would need to find a candidate for replacement. Do you have any to suggest?

[webyneter]

@hongquan any news on this one regarding @browniebroke's suggestion?

[hongquan]

@browniebroke, @webyneter
The alternative can be python-slugify.

Have you tried submitting a pull request to the project?

I haven't. I may do I if I can arrange my time.

I think that awesome-slugify's author doesn't give much attention to it. The development has been stopped for 1.5 year.

[browniebroke]

Good find. It's true that awesome-slugify's development seems a bit stalled.

The slugify API doesn't seem used directly in the project but is a good utility to have, as pointed out in #761. The main API for both libraries is the same:

from slugify import slugify

slugify('Any text')  # 'Any-text'

Therefore, I don't have any objections to this replacement. Feel free to send a pull request @hongquan.

[webyneter]

@browniebroke me neither.

[TobitRE]

You've overlooked one crucial difference.
awesome-slugify support German umlaute like ä, ü, ö and transform them to ae, ue, oe.

python-slugify only change it to a, u, o which is not well readably for user.