Re: [Maposmatic-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Explain the workaround for Django makemessages bug

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Le Mon, 2 Apr 2012 23:03:50 +0200,
Jeroen van Rijn <address@hidden> a écrit :

> I'm wondering if we might not be able to use a convenience wrapper around
> django-admin.py? It's a pretty short script as it is.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> from django.core import management
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     management.execute_from_command_line()
> 
>     if management.get_version == '1.2':
>        import sys
>        if 'makemessages' in sys.argv:
>        ...... walk tree using find / sed, or the python equivalent
> 
> That is if we know which django versions exhibit this behaviour, a small
> script like this derived from django-admin.py could do away with this
> warning in README. Given that people in general don't tend to Read The Fine
> Manual, it might be something worth considering?

There's no need to use django-admin.py anymore, the manage.py script
does the work already. Of course, if there's a way of making this
work-around permanent, that would be nice.

The problem has apparently been fixed in recent versions of Django:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16721.

A different work-around might be:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/5646276/643208.

Regards,

Thomas
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