Backwards-Incompatible Changes

Version 0.5

• Removed the “from views import *” call from “__init__” - This was there to provide backwards compatibility for when baseviews was a single file instead of a package. This is not a good practice in general, and it caused problems when trying to implement formal versioning. All instances of from baseviews import in your code will need to be replaced with from baseviews.views import.

Version 0.4

• “view_factory” removed - With the addition of the __new__ method override, the class can now used in the url mapping directly. This eliminates the need for a view factory.
• View args and kwargs handled in “__init__” - Previously, the view arguments such as request and args and kwargs from the url pattern were handled by the __call__ method. Now, they are (more appropriately) handled by the __init__ method and the __call__ method is called without any additional arguments. You’ll need to adjust your subclasses accordingly.
• “decorate” removed - Jannis Leidel pointed out that Django has an equivalent method decorator built in, at django.utils.decorators.method_decorator. This eliminates the need for a custom decorate decorator.