[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been working with Pylons and have developed some standalone
> applications that are part of a larger site. I'm trying to find out
> what the best way is to reference common css/javascript files across
> all of the apps. Here is the setup in a nutshell:
>
> I have a home page and 3 sub-apps that all use the same css layout
> files and some of the same script files. I have so far been putting
> these files in each application's public directory. Bad idea, I know,
> but I was in a hurry. Anyway, the 3 apps really are separate apps and
> I therefore don't really want to put all of them in the same project.
> I currently use paste#urlmap to call out to each separate app.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has tried to do something similar and found a
> good way to share some of these files across multiple apps.
We've considered (but haven't implemented) something where each
application would ask for a URL for a resource. I suppose you could
shoehorn this into url_for and Routes, though I probably wouldn't; I'd
just do something like, um, my_url_for('PackageName', 'filename'), e.g.,
my_url_for('MochiKit', 'DOM.js'). Then unless configured it'd use the
copies in public/, but with some extra configuration (probably taken
from a common [DEFAULT] block or something) it'd return the URLs for
some common location (e.g., http://static.mysite.com/PackageName/filename).
To go alongside this, I'd want some declarative way to indicate what
files I have, what version they are, and what their package is. E.g.,
something like (in setup.py):
resource_files = """
MochiKit-1.1 = mypackage/public/MochiKit/
"""
Then some system might copy or symlink in those files into the static
area on installation. Or maybe I'd go all webby with it, as I have been
inclined to do, and say that /application/.admin/resource-list should
return some kind of links to all the resource files that might be
needed, and I'd start up and grab all the files and copy them over, then
somehow tell the app where they were. But that's a little more fuzzy to
me at this point.
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