compiling compass files in multiple apps together

[chrisdrackett]

Recently I've been looking to add compass files to some reusable apps (well, reusable by me and my team.)

Ideally these files would be compiled with the compass files for the project, so that variables could be overwritten, etc. I think this should work in theory on production using collect static because it'll move all the sass files into the same directory before webassets renders things (I haven't tried it yet).

I have tried this locally and right now the compass files do not see each other when using runserver.

[miracle2k]

I do presume that it should work after running "collectstatic".

(For development, a temporary hack might be to use a media directory with symlinks to the app-specific media folders.)

In development, webassets itself can search for the correct files (see #21). But for filters like sass or compass, this does't work, because it's the respective tools that resolve things like "@include" statements in sass files.

Copying my comments from #21:

The sass compiler supports multiple search paths, though the compass executable doesn't seem to; The compass filter may have to be rewritten to use the sass executable. There also needs to be a mechanism where those additional search paths can be made available to the filters by the django-assets addon.

[chrisdrackett]

yeah, cool. I'm using symlinks now and its working great, it's not ideal (especially as things come up twice in search in text mate) but it'll do the job for the time being. :)