django-admin.py template dir argument

[stuff4ash@…]

It could be useful to be able to specify alternative project/app template directories (instead of django/conf/app_template & django/conf/project_template).
Developers could have custom template dirs taylored to their needs.

[Chris Beaven]

Use a separate settings files for this.

[stuff4ash@…]

what settings file? when creating a project (as in running django-admin startproject) what settings file can you specifiy?
when i create a new project, i get a a folder with the project name, with subfiles settings.py, init.py, urls.py, and manage.py. namely, the files that are under django/conf/project_template. i would like to specify an alternative project_template folder, it automatically creates whatever i have under it, (for example, a substructure i sometimes work with):

apps init.py media
config README tools
contrib manage.py settings.py urls.py
docs templates

as far as i know, this has nothing to do with settings option. i might be wrong though ;)

[Chris Beaven]

Oh, ok. I was under the impression you were talking about the TEMPLATE_DIR setting (too much skim-reading, sorry).

startapp and startproject are just shortcuts - IMO we don't need a setting to override this, but I'll pass it by someone else to decide.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I agree with Chris. There's a limit to how much customisation it's worth having here. You can easily copy whichever files or directories you want by hand or script if you are up to the level of needing to customise them.

[George Song]

Or just write a custom command to plug into manage.py.

[pbaker@…]

Bump.

This is a bit old, but came across it in development of Django dependent project, RapidSMS. This inflexibility has caused (poor) duplication of code (see ​1 and ​2 and ​3).

As Django has grown and become used by more projects, it might make sense to tackle this. @gsong, a custom command in manage.py doesn't fix the hard-coded path in django.core.management.base.copy_helper. Instead of making an additional setting, how about passing an additional variable to the copy_helper? I'd be happy to submit a patch!

[Chris Beaven]

A better place to talk about closed tickets is the mailing list.