Also the stupid thing as well, we are already using 'templatetags' and 'filters'.. I just had no idea it supported 'appname/templates' as well.
*doh* Cal On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> wrote: > 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.
