From fe192be798ac1a9bd13983d197cb5775b7da2ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:36:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a SUGAR_HOME environment variable

We should really use XDG directories but that will be a bit
more complicated and require migration scripts. This is a
short time solution to "expose" the dot sugar directory in
sugar-build.
---
 src/sugar3/env.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/sugar3/env.py b/src/sugar3/env.py
index a544cc23..a18d5c93 100644
--- a/src/sugar3/env.py
+++ b/src/sugar3/env.py
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ def is_emulator():
 
 def get_profile_path(path=None):
     profile_id = os.environ.get('SUGAR_PROFILE', 'default')
-    base = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser('~/.sugar'), profile_id)
+    home_dir = os.environ.get('SUGAR_HOME', os.path.expanduser('~/.sugar'))
+    base = os.path.join(home_dir, profile_id)
     if not os.path.isdir(base):
         try:
             os.makedirs(base, 0770)