> I'm a bit afraid that this will make running the CMS on 1.2 harder...
How is that? django-staticfiles 1.0 [1] is currently in a3 and will be released at the same time as Django 1.3. It's compatible with contrib staticfiles in Django 1.3 and backwards compatible to 1.1 and 1.2 [2].
Jannis
1: http://django-staticfiles.rtfd.org/
2: https://github.com/jezdez/django-staticfiles/blob/master/tox.ini
Reinout
+1 :)