Using Django Compressor

[firesharkstudios]

I'm trying to use Django Compressor (http://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart/) with Cactus.

I've done the following...

1. Run "pip install django-compressor" from a command line

2. Modified the "INSTALLED_APPS" variable in site-packages/Cactus/site.py to have the value ['django_markwhat', 'compressor']

3. Added this to my base.html...

{% load compress %}

{% compress css %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/one.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
<style type="text/css">p { border:5px solid green;}</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/two.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
{% endcompress %}

Running 'cactus serve' then results in this error...

django.template.base.TemplateSyntaxError: 'compress' is not a valid tag library: ImportError raised loading compressor.templatetags.compress: cannot import name caches

Unfortunately, I'm really not that familiar with Django to troubleshoot this well. Any ideas how to fix this or otherwise get a CSS/JS minifier/combiner working with Cactus?

[153957]

You will probably need an older version of Django-compressor that works with Django < 1.7.

From the Django-compressor readme:

Django Compressor is compatible with Django 1.8 and newer.
So it tries to import something from django (django.core.cache.caches) but that did not exist in Django<1.7.

Try installing django-compressor 1.6, since after that support for those old Django versions was dropped: http://django-compressor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog/#v2-0-2016-01-07

Try pip install 'django-compressor==1.6 (first pip uninstall django-compressor to remove the already installed version)