[ckan-dev] Packaging theme and model customisations

[Seb Bacon]

On 10 February 2011 15:59, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 10 February 2011 15:53, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Seb,
>>
>> Rufus just called to say that what I said was wrong and he's done
>
> Not so much wrong as that one can also do it in the extension :)
> (sorry for all -- was afkb with only phone and it sounded like Seb was
> coding!)
>
>> things a better way in a couple of extensions - ckanext-stats and
>> ckanext-dataapi. Something about hooks for config. There seems to be
>> something related here:
>> https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-stats/src/default/ckanext/stats/__init__.py

I take it it's a bug that implements(IConfigurer, inherit=True) is
commented out?

> FWIW I think there are 2 approaches here:
>
> 1. Simple themes -- just use the config variable in the ini
> 2. Extension that need templates (and css/js) etc. Using the approach
> shown in the stats extension. Also propose following convention there
> that extensions store templates and 'public' (static stuff) in
> extension at:
>
> public/ckanext/{extension-name}
> templates/ckanext/{extension-name}
>
> (And mount the 'public' material at ckanext/{extension-name})
>
> Rufus
>
> PS: I (we) should document this on http://ckan.org/wiki/Extensions or
> similar ...

If I get time I'll do that next week.

Seb



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