I know it's an obscure and rather inane question, but if one of the
developers would take a moment to comment, I'd be appreciative.
Thanks!

-jag

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Joshua 'jag' Ginsberg
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a technical reason why django.template.loader.make_origin
>  returns None unless TEMPLATE_DEBUG is true? Would it not be helpful in
>  a view to be able to know from whence a template source came from?
>
>  For example, in Satchmo, the view satchmo.shipper.views.displayDoc
>  they have to know the path of the template in order to pass a relative
>  path to the template so it can include an icon URI. The view currently
>  does this by stepping through settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS to find the
>  template -- which only permits it to be loaded by
>  django.template.loaders.filesystem and nothing else. I use a
>  subversion based template loader, and if I could pass the template the
>  URL relative the origin URL of the template that would be fantastic --
>  however without the origin, I can't do that.
>
>  So is there an engineering reason to not return an origin unless we're
>  debugging templates? Thanks!
>
>  -jag
>

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