Comics v2.3.0 released with better mobile support

by Stein Magnus Jodal

Version 2.3.0 of my comics aggregator is now released. As always, dependencies have been updated, including the routine Django upgrade from Django 1.5 to 1.6, just in time for the upcoming 1.7 release. The largest change this time around is the move from Bootstrap 2 to 3, which includes a refreshed, flatter design and lots of tweaking to make Comics both look good and work nicely on mobile devices, something it didn’t use to do.

The dependency overview at requires.io has been a great motivation for doing some maintenance work on Comics. The only dependency left outdated is django-registration, as 1.0 moves to class-based views, which requires some larger changes to my customizations. Thus, the upgrade of django-registration has been deferred together with the related upgrade of my vendorized copy of django-invitation.

Most, if not all, of the other dependencies seems to support Python 3 now, though some lack the right Trove classifiers in their PyPI registration, so they are not correctly labeled by requires.io. I found an open pull request for cssmin and a recent commit for django-compressor adding the missing Trove classifiers. I’ve also done my part to improve the Python 3 metadata by sending a pull request to django-bootstrap-form.

Check out the Comics project docs for more information about Comics and this release in particular.