I'm having a really hard time getting my head around the use of django-compressor.

Here's what I'm attempting to accomplish:

Separation of Static Files & Assets (LESS, Coffeescript)

I would like to separate my LESS CSS and Coffeescript files into an assets directory

e.g.

    app
    └── assets
        ├── coffee
        │   └── script.coffee
        └── less
            └── style.less

Leaving static assets such as images in my static directory

e.g.

    app
    └── static
        ├── hello.txt
        └── photo.jpg

To do this, I've added the assets path to my STATICFILES_DIRS variable to allow django-compressor to find the files (which works as expected). Is this the correct approach? I have been trying to find an independent load path dedicated to django-compressor but didn't have any luck as I don't intend for these assets to be served as statics.

Collection of Files for Production Deployment

For deploying to production, I would then like the compiled CSS & JS files along with other media in my app/static directory (e.g. images and so on) to be collected to an app/static-prod directory. But this doesn't work out so well because the assets are also collected when using the collectstatic command.

e.g.

(django-cpython)fots@fotsies-ubprecise-01:~/django_learning$ ./manage.py collectstatic --noinput
Copying '/home/fots/django_learning/app/assets/less/style.less'
Copying '/home/fots/django_learning/app/assets/less/import.less'
Copying '/home/fots/django_learning/app/assets/coffee/script.coffee'
Copying '/home/fots/django_learning/app/static/photo.jpg'
Copying '/home/fots/django_learning/app/static/hello.txt'

5 static files copied.

Using the ./manage.py compress command only takes tare of my compiled files, not photo.jpg or hello.txt in this example.

Th