It seems that the translation module now requires 'settings'. This makes it impossible to run make-messages.py outside of an application. This is waht I got when I ran 'make-messages -u' in django's root directory:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\django\bin\make-messages.py", line 3, in ?
from django.utils.translation.trans_real import templatize
File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\utils\translation\__init__.py", line 3, in ?
if settings.USE_I18N:
File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 28, in __getattr__
self._import_settings()
File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 53, in _import_settings
raise EnvironmentError, "Environment variable %s is undefined." % ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE
EnvironmentError: Environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.
I tried changing the import line from this:
from django.utils.translation import templatize
To this:
from django.utils.translation.trans_real import templatize
But it still has to run init.py.
I took the liberty to assign it to adrian becasue he is the one who broke it :)