Commit 216fdfab authored by Jannis Leidel's avatar Jannis Leidel
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Added note about the addition of the django.contrib.staticfiles app. Thanks to... 

Added note about the addition of the django.contrib.staticfiles app. Thanks to Florian Apolloner for reminding me about it and providing a patch.

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docs/releases/1.3-alpha-1.txt

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logging activity. See :doc:`the documentation on Django's logging

interface </topics/logging>` for more details.



Extended static files handling

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Django 1.3 ships with a new contrib app ``'django.contrib.staticfiles'``

to help developers handle the static media files (images, CSS, Javascript,

etc.) that are needed to render a complete web page.



In previous versions of Django, it was common to place static assets in

:setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` along with user-uploaded files, and serve them both at

:setting:`MEDIA_URL`. Part of the purpose of introducing the ``staticfiles``

app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded

files. For this reason, you will probably want to make your

:setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` and :setting:`MEDIA_URL` different from your

:setting:`STATICFILES_ROOT` and :setting:`STATICFILES_URL`. You will need to

arrange for serving of files in :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` yourself;

``staticfiles`` does not deal with user-uploaded media at all.



See the :doc:`reference documentation of the app </ref/contrib/staticfiles>`

for more details or learn how to :doc:`manage static files

</howto/static-files>`.



``unittest2`` support

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/releases/1.3.txt

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@@ -46,6 +46,27 @@ error emails sent on a HTTP 500 server error are now handled as a 
logging activity. See :doc:`the documentation on Django's logging

interface </topics/logging>` for more details.



Extended static files handling

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Django 1.3 ships with a new contrib app ``'django.contrib.staticfiles'``

to help developers handle the static media files (images, CSS, Javascript,

etc.) that are needed to render a complete web page.



In previous versions of Django, it was common to place static assets in

:setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` along with user-uploaded files, and serve them both at

:setting:`MEDIA_URL`. Part of the purpose of introducing the ``staticfiles``

app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded

files. For this reason, you will probably want to make your

:setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` and :setting:`MEDIA_URL` different from your

:setting:`STATICFILES_ROOT` and :setting:`STATICFILES_URL`. You will need to

arrange for serving of files in :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` yourself;

``staticfiles`` does not deal with user-uploaded media at all.



See the :doc:`reference documentation of the app </ref/contrib/staticfiles>`

for more details or learn how to :doc:`manage static files

</howto/static-files>`.



``unittest2`` support

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~