title: Django and compass with multiple apps
body: <p>I want to use <a href="http://compass-style.org">Compass</a> to simplify the task of writing CSS in my Django app. But I don't know how to configure it.</p>
  
  <p>I see django-compressor has support for SASS, but in order to use Compass I needed to dump the <code>_*.scss</code> files into my workspace (Django 1.4) since that's the working directory when django-compressor runs <code>scss</code> commands.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://compass-style.org/blog/2011/05/09/compass-django/">Eric Meyer's approach</a> sounds sensible (compile <code>.scss</code> files to <code>.css</code> during development and commit to SCM) but it's not obvious how I can use the SASS/Compass tools to compile <code>.scss</code> in multiple apps (both reusable and non-reusable) in a Django workspace.</p>
  
  <p>I store static stylesheet files for each app in <code>&lt;app&gt;/static/&lt;app&gt;/css/</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The issues I have are this:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><code>@import</code> doesn't work across apps</li>
  <li>Putting <code>_*.scss</code> files in the workspace is unacceptable</li>
  <li><p>Running <code>compass watch</code> in the workspace fails with:</p>
  
  <p>Nothing to compile. If you're trying to start a new project, you have left off the directory argument.</p></li>
  <li><p>Using <code>@include background(...)</code> fails:</p>
  
  <p>Syntax error: Undefined operation: "-compass-list-size(compact(#cccccc, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false)) gt 1"</p></li>
  </ol>