#24159: compilemessages does not behave the same as makemessages
--------------------------------------+--------------------
Reporter: dracos | Owner: nobody
Type: Uncategorized | Status: new
Component: Internationalization | Version: 1.7
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
--------------------------------------+--------------------
makemessages was upgraded in Django 1.7 so that it would automatically put
app strings in app specific locale files and other strings in the first
LOCALE_PATHS entry, as explained in the "Changed in Django 1.7" part of
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/translation/#message-
files. This was ticket #16084.
Ticket #20451 was marked as a duplicate of this ticket, but ticket #16084
only improved makemessages, it didn't change compilemessages at all.
compilemessages, when run from the same directory as manage.py, will only
compile 'conf/locale', 'locale' and the LOCALE_PATHS .po files, it will
not compile any app specific locale files that were created by a call to
makemessages.
The documentation on compilemessages does not appear to tell you this,
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/translation/#compiling-
message-files says "This tool runs over all available .po files and
creates .mo files". It then says you should run it "In the same directory
from which you ran django-admin.py makemessages" which I think is
referring to the pre-1.7 behaviour of having to run it in more than one
place.
I'm not sure whether it would be better for compilemessages to have the
same behaviour as makemessages or for the documentation to update to point
out you still need to run it in each app if they have separate locale
entries.
--
Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24159>
Django <https://code.djangoproject.com/>
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django updates" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-updates/049.4712c243d6825836885291eb47804637%40djangoproject.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
