Just realised why this has been so heavily debated, and just discovered something new.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#loader-types django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader If 'myproject.polls' is placed into INSTALLED_APPS then Django will look at '/path/to/myproject/polls/templates/' for the templates. I didn't even know about app_directories loader, and using it sounds much cleaner than having to use relative paths. In regards to the other two vars (media root etc), as stated before, those should really be deployment specific and not relative, this is a devops problem not a code problem. As such, I'm now -9000 on supporting relative paths. Thanks for explaining this Florian - makes a lot more sense now. Cal On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Florian Apolloner <f.apollo...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 7:48:59 PM UTC+1, Cal Leeming [Simplicity > Media Ltd] wrote: >> >> Rather than saying "spend 30 seconds thinking about it", could you >> perhaps spend 30 seconds explaining why using relative paths for >> TEMPLATE_DIRS would be considered a bad thing to do? > > > I don't think that per se it would be a bad thing to do, but then you > could also just dump the project name (from startproject) into > INSTALLED_APPS and have the same effect (plus you can have project > templatetags and filters, yay :)) as Aymeric already tried to explain. I > guess your point for relative TEMPLATE_DIRS is only that you can have > PROJECT_DIR + templates which is already fullfiller by the app > template-loader in a much cleaner way imo. > > I hope that clears things up a bit. > > Cheers, > Florian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/-/xuVeOmwI_8AJ. > > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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.
