Admin interface template tags expect ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to be a complete URL.

Patch for templatetags, relevant to 0.95.1 release

#2891 also talks about changing ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX.

-1 on this, as it then limits ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to being in MEDIA_URL, when you may want different paths.

This may also create problems in runserver, due to the automatic mapping of the admin media.

Collin, I think you're missing what it does. If you use an absolute path for ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX, you'll see no change. It's just for if it's a relative path:

>>> from urlparse import urljoin

>>> urljoin('/media/', '/admin_media/')   # How most people have it - won't break anything
'/admin_media/'

>>> urljoin('/media/', 'admin/')   # What this patch will allow
'/media/admin/'

Ah, my mistake - carry on then :)

Marking wontfix -- this is how ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is supposed to work. Also, it's simply too much of a backwards-incompatible change (for little reason).

I'm not exactly passionate about this ticket, but how is this backwards-incompatible? Current if you've got an absolute path for ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX (like everyone currently does) there is no change to behaviour.

All this introduces is new functionality of allowing the use of a relative path as your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX.

This just isn't worth it, sorry.

Fair enough, just wanted to get a valid close reason ;)