How to export translated messages from Launchpad? (Re: i18n test environment on Lauchpad staging.

[Martin Pool]

On 16 May 2011 13:29, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Launchpad can export into a bzr branch, which seems like a good fit. I
>> think we should let it commit the .po files into a branch that gets
>> merged into bzr trunk, and then compile them into .mo files at
>> distribution / package build time.
>>
>> https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject/Exports
>
> On that URL,
>
>> Directory layout
>> In the branch, each translation file will have a normalised name (de.po for a German translation, zh_CN.po > for Simplified Chinese, eo.po for Esperanto, and so on). Each translation sits in the same directory where > its template was located on import.
>
> That's what I wanted to know. It's very nice.
>
>>> If build_mo command is needed, I'll copy it from bzr-explorer.
>
> I've sent merge request adding build_mo command.
> https://code.launchpad.net/~songofacandy/bzr/i18n-msgfmt/+merge/61082

Thanks for that.

Can you explain for me a bit about why the build_mo command is needed,
rather than using externally available i18n tools?  Is it just that
they are hard to install or get running on Windows?

Martin