django 1.3 STATIC_URL

[munhitsu]

Django 1.3 introduces STATIC_URL as a standard approach for app static files.
So from now on there are two paths for not dynamic files:
MEDIA_URL - more like uploaded files
STATIC_URL - statics delivered with app

At this point there are two issues with django-css.

1. defeulting to context MEDIA_URL
   I guess it should be enough jus to remove templatetags/compress.py lines:
   if 'MEDIA_URL' in context:
   media_url = context['MEDIA_URL']
   else:
2. During development STATIC_ROOT is often empty as it is being dynamically filled by static app. A standard practice is to have all files collected to STATIC_ROOT only on development

It might be useful to either document this limitation or get real static file path while in development mode (runserver)

[hedberg]

I made a pull request regarding the media url issue earlier. You can have a look here #27

[munhitsu]

Works perfect. Thanks!

[twoolie]

i dont know about you guys, but i store site-wide sass files in STATIC_ROOT and now these files are not found by django-css. They are however served perfectly by django static files.

django-css needs to considder files in STATIC_ROOT before any files in STATICFILES_DIRS

[xster]

Django-css's copy of django-compressor is old in general. Django-compressor took care of this in recent versions

[twoolie]

is anyone merging django-compressor into django-css regularly/semi-regularly?

[hedberg]

You might wanna take a look at https://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor/. It now has a precompiler filter with which you can add support for external commands (sass, coffescript etc). Works well in my first test and have support for Django 1.3 / staticfiles.

Yes, it works really well in my tests. Except one small problem where I can't get it to find my static files in my app. Other than that there's 0 problems. :)

I tracked down the bug I spoke of above here, and have the fix.