Compile .po files into .mo files.
This plugin adds build_mo, clean_mo and install_mo subcommands for
setup.py as well as hooking those into standard commands.
By default, setuptools_gettext compiles and installs mo files when there is a
po directory present that contains .po files.
The .mo files are installed adjacent to your package as package data in a subdirectory called locale.
You can override these settings in pyproject.toml:
[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-gettext"]
...
[tool.setuptools-gettext]
# directory in which the .po files can be found
source_dir = "po"
# directory in which the generated .mo files are placed when building
build_dir = "breezy/locale"By default, either msgfmt or the translate-toolkit package is used to
compile the .po files into .mo files - whichever is available.
The --msgfmt option can be used to force the use of msgfmt, and the
--translate-toolkit option can be used to force the use of the
translate-toolkit.
At the moment, msgfmt is preferred. In the future, the translate-toolkit
will become the default.
You can use the translate-toolkit extra to install the translate-toolkit
package.