+# compute ROOT from where this file is installed
+# should fit every need including developers
+# but you can redefine ROOT if that's not working for you
+try:
+ # get the directory where this file is
+ ROOT=os.path.dirname(__file__) or '.'
+ # move one step up
+ ROOT=os.path.realpath(ROOT+'/..')
+except:
+ # something is badly wrong here
+ ROOT=None
+ import traceback
+ traceback.print_exc()
+
+# find out HTTPROOT, which is different from ROOT
+# when deployed from a package
+# this code is run by collectstatic too, so we cannot
+# assume we have ./static present already
+HTTPROOT="/usr/share/unfold"
+# the place to store local data, like e.g. the sqlite db
+DATAROOT="/var/unfold"
+# if not there, then we assume it's from a devel tree
+if not os.path.isdir (os.path.join(HTTPROOT,"static")):
+ HTTPROOT=ROOT
+ DATAROOT=ROOT
+
+if not os.path.isdir(ROOT): raise Exception,"Cannot find ROOT %s for unfold"%ROOT
+if not os.path.isdir(HTTPROOT): raise Exception,"Cannot find HTTPROOT %s for unfold"%HTTPROOT
+
+# dec 2013 - we currently have 2 auxiliary subdirs with various utilities
+# that we do not wish to package
+# * sandbox is for plugin developers
+# * sample is for various test views
+# for each of these, if we find a directory of that name under ROOT, it then gets
+# inserted in INSTALLED_APPS and its urls get included (see urls.py)
+auxiliaries = [ 'sandbox', 'sample', ]