On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Luke Plant <l.plant...@cantab.net> wrote:

> On 29/12/12 04:08, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
>
> > Could we not have something like this in the settings.py, which in turn
> > enabled the code pasted above?
> > TEMPLATE_PATH_RELATIVE=True
>
> For consistency, we'd need STATICFILES_PATH_RELATIVE,
> STATIC_ROOT_PATH_RELATIVE, MEDIA_ROOT_PATH_RELATIVE etc. which is
> craziness. Having just one extra setting is a big deal.
>
> There are use cases for all of these being absolute paths (or at least
> some of them), and use cases for all of them being relative. We've
> already chosen absolute paths, and you can generate absolute from
> relative using os.path.realpath etc.
>
> The only option I can is whether we put that snippet of code (e.g.
> PROJECT_ROOT=os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) ) into the
> settings file generated when starting a new project.
>

+1


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> Luke
>
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