Re: [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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.

--
Philip Jenvey


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