[Distutils] Msgfmt in distutils?

[Philip Jenvey]

On Oct 1, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
>> -On [20081001 16:28], Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>> and have distutils do the right thing with the .po files at build  
>>>> time
>>>> (generate .mo files from them) and at install time (install them  
>>>> into
>>>> PREFIX/share/locales/LC_MESSAGES/, or wherever the distribution is
>>>> configured to put them).
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> This has been a big deal for some applications I work on.  Our  
>>> first cut
>>> was to add new Build and InstallData command classes.
>>
>> Actually with Babel (http://babel.edgewall.org/) that's all handled.
>>
> That's good to know.  One of our Turbogears applications uses Babel  
> and
> it definitely doesn't install to the right place.  I'd love to fix  
> it to
> take advantage of Babel' properly.  Would you be kind enough to  
> point me
> documentation on how to get Babel to install locale files?  Looking at
> the babel website, I only see documentation up to building the message
> catalogs.  If the install portion is integrated into setuptools is  
> there
> something I might have to configure in setup() to tell babel/ 
> setuptools
> what directory to use?

Once you have Babel generating .mo files, all you'll need is a  
package_data entry for them, e.g.:

     package_data={'foo': ['i18n/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo']},

then the catalogs will make it into the final sdist/egg and be  
included during an installation.

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Philip Jenvey