If Django is in development mode

[igorcc]

If Django is in DEBUG mode it will not work because often settings.STATIC_ROOT is not defined in development mode.
I propose to make changes in utils.py line 236 from
'root': settings.STATIC_ROOT,
to
'root': settings.STATIC_ROOT if not settings.DEBUG else settings.STATICFILES_DIRS[0],
It is tricky however as settings.STATICFILES_DIRS should have for the first item a valid STATIC_ROOT path.
But for me it works.