+# 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
+
+####################