Hi Mikhail, On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Mikhail Korobov <kmik...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Waldemar, > > Could you explain why is this should belong to django staticfiles app? > This app has nothing to do with combining css files. It has one view > (django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve) in order to serve files in > development. This is only a helper view used in development and I > don't see why it is necessary to support css-combining solutions in > it. If some app combines/compresses css/js files it should handle the > path rewriting etc. and provide a way to insert the media into > templates (e.g. via templatetag as django-compress do) because all > these stuff can be handled in different ways. > django.contrib.staticfiles (and it's serve view) doesn't stand in the > way here and I think it's the best it could do. If > django.contrib.staticfiles prevents something to be implemented then > it's an another story and this should be fixed.
While it's true that staticfiles doesn't handle CSS-combining, many people will want to combine their files and thus use a different asset manager (potentially building on top of staticfiles; doesn't matter). If staticfiles doesn't set a standard here then different apps will depend on different (incompatible) URL rewriting schemes and this is bad for reusability. Staticfiles is supposed to prevent this. So, we need a standard here. Depending on which standard we choose it can have an influence on staticfiles and in order to be compliant with the standard we might have to rewrite URLs in staticfiles, too. Bye, Waldemar -- Django on App Engine, MongoDB, ...? Browser-side Python? It's open-source: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/blog/django -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
