peterbe/django-static — pull request #29 by Lacrymology (2012-06-18 22:31:15+00:00)
Title: Use 1.3 contrib.staticfiles' finders to avoid needing to run collectstatic in dev mode

I know you can turn django-static off during development, but sometimes you want to find whatever files are not being processed by it, so you need it on, and if collectstatic hasn't been run yet, django-static fails to find it.

If `django.contrib.staticfiles.finders` is available, this patch will use it (after failing to find a file with current django-static behavior) to find the wanted files, presumably in the apps' directories.