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On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Akihiro Motoki <amotoki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Akihiro!

> To display localized strings, we need to compile translated message
> catalogs (PO files) into compiled one (MO files).
> I would like to discuss and get a consensus who and when generate
> compiled message catalogs.
> Inputs from packagers are really appreciated.
>
> [The current status]
> * Horizon contains compile message catalogs in the git repo. (It is
> just a history and there seems no strong reason to have compiled one
> in the repo. There is a bug report on it.)
> * Other all projects do not contain compiled message catalogs and have
> only PO files.
>
> [Possible choices]
> I think there are several options. (there may be other options)
> (a) OpenStack does not distribute compiled message catalogs, and only
> provides a command (setup.py integration) to compile message catalogs.
> Deployers or distributors need to compile message catalogs.
> (b) Similar to (a), but compile message catalogs as a part of "pip install".
> (c) OpenStack distributes compiled message catalogs as a part of the release.
>     (c1) the git repo maintains compiled message catalogs.
>     (c2) only tarball contains compiled message catalogs
>
> Note that the current Horizon is (c1) and others are (a).

I'd go for (a), as traditionally message catalogs were compiled during
the packaging step for Linux software (of course your experiences may
vary).
Of course if it was pretty straightforward to integrate it into pip
install it would also be a good solution.

Anyway keeping the compiled files in git isn't a good solution as they
get easily outdated...

Best regards,
-- 
Łukasz [DeeJay1] Jernaś