I see your point about overriding reusable app media. I got an idea though when reading your post. Since people want to update reusable apps to a more recent version/revision and since that means the media files will/might change, why not add another command that would show which installed media files differ from the default ones provided by apps? That would show both which files have been overridden and which files have been changed by recent updates. I guess if you have means to compare file trees already, it would be a simple thing to add. The command could be named "comparemedia" or "mediastatus" or similar.
Erik On 20.09.2008, at 16:12, Brian Beck wrote: > > On Sep 20, 6:58 am, Erik Allik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone got some good use cases where the template-loaded >> mimicking >> behavior would be desired? Otherwise it's just needless complexity in >> my opinion. > > Well, first of all, it's not really complexity at all. If it were to > just copy all the media files found, the last app in INSTALLED_APPS > would overwrite the others with the same name. This way, the first > app in INSTALLED_APPS wins instead of the last one. That's the only > difference. > > And the use case is of course to customize the style of a reusable app > without modifying the actual files distributed with the app (which > would make it a pain when upgrading). batchadmin[1], for example -- > if you want to change the style of the batch action form, like to make > it pink, just provide a file in your app named media/css/ > batchadmin.css, just like you would provide a template at templates/ > batchadmin/actions.html if you wanted to change the markup. > > [1]: http://code.google.com/p/django-batchadmin/ > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
