Build and ship compiled locale files.
Review Request #4482 — Created Aug. 23, 2013 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
Build and ship compiled locale files. This adds another compilation step to the egg build: locale files. We keep the .po files checked in to git, but we don't want to check in .mo files because they're big binary blobs that may change frequently, and git doesn't do so well with that. This requires that msgfmt from the xgettext package is installed somewhere in the path. On OSX, I've installed it via homebrew, but that doesn't add it to the user path by default because of some conflicts.
- Built a .egg and installed it. Verified that both .po and .mo files were included in the correct location. - Changed my PATH so that msgfmt could not be found. Saw the bdist_egg command error out.