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Compile translations with polib instead of GNU gettext - #856
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compilemessages is overridden in app to compile the catalogues in LOCALE_PATHS with polib, so neither the image nor CI needs gettext. polib keeps Plural-Forms verbatim and skips fuzzy messages, matching msgfmt; Babel was rejected because it drops Plural-Forms and falls back to the English plural rule. makemessages still needs gettext locally. The generated project's CI loses its apt step entirely: nothing else needed gettext or locales-all, and awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action silently caches an empty archive when apt fails (upstream #166, #221). Ported from fandsdev/medical-backend#804. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
CI needs GNU gettext only to run
compilemessages. Installing it means either an apt cache, which is buggy (awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-actionsilently caches an empty archive when apt fails, upstream #166 and #221), or an uncachedapt-get install, which slows every run down.Solution
Compile the catalogues in pure Python.
manage.py compilemessagesis overridden inappto compile with polib, whose output matchesmsgfmt's. With nothing left to install, the apt step goes away and the buggy caching with it.gettextleaves the Docker image too.GNU gettext is still needed on the developer's machine for
makemessages.🤖 Generated with Claude Code