Directory Structure

[warrenbeyda@…]

I have a Django app and my static files are in:

~/django_app/app/app/static/app/

Who thought this directory structure was a good idea? and where can I go to hurt them? This is THE most frustrating thing about Django. This is worse than any PHP framework (and they are all bad). Django looking for static assets in the first folder it finds is not a valid excuse for this rediculous namespacing idea.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

Thank you for you kindly worded and considered opinion.

However, instead of taking the opportunity to suggest a solution, you've resorted to polemic, so there's very little we can do to action you complaint.

If you care to make a concrete suggestion for how we can improve things -- keeping in mind that the current design actually has a purpose behind it, and any proposal needs to acknowledge the reasons behind that purpose -- feel free to reopen this ticket.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I might also suggest that you need to spend some time either with the documentation, or with some of the helpful people on the django-users mailing list, or on the #django IRC channel. The sample directory path you've provided has at least one redundant element in it, which suggests it is your own project that is at least part of the problem.

[loic84]

The name-spacing is optional, it's just a convention. You can do app/static/style.css if you want to.

Also this is just the AppDirectoriesFinder, Django also provides FileSystemFinder and even let you supply a custom Finder.

As a side note, reading the docs would get you a long way...