# GNU MediaGoblin -- federated, autonomous media hosting
-# Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc
+# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 MediaGoblin contributors. See AUTHORS.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
import gettext
import pkg_resources
+import threading
#############################
# General mediagoblin globals
#############################
-# mongokit.Connection
-db_connection = None
-
-# mongokit.Connection
+# SQL database engine
database = None
# should be the same as the
# A WorkBenchManager
workbench_manager = None
-# gettext
-translations = gettext.find(
+# A thread-local scope
+thread_scope = threading.local()
+
+# gettext (this needs to default to English so it doesn't break
+# in case we're running a script without the app like
+# ./bin/gmg theme assetlink)
+thread_scope.translations = gettext.translation(
'mediagoblin',
pkg_resources.resource_filename(
- 'mediagoblin', 'translations'), ['en'])
+ 'mediagoblin', 'i18n'), ['en'], fallback=True)
# app and global config objects
app_config = None