[I18n-sig] pygettext and msgfmt support for distutils

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
16 Apr 2003 15:59:44 -0400


On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 15:24, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> However, more important, to me, seems to define a mechanism to
> smoothly install .mo files, in a location where gettext would find
> them.

Excellent point!

setup.py has some provisions for installing data files, so maybe that
can be piggybacked?  I don't have time to look into this right now, but
it would be nice to do something like

- specify the domain in setup
- have setup drop the files in <--install-data>/xx/LC_MESSAGES

-Barry