id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 10869 ./manage.py makemessages should let users specify input directories filipnoetzel "When building an multilingual webapp using django reusable apps, one needs to translate them as well (and include the translation strings in the .po file) .. Unfortunately ./manage.py makemessages only searches the current directory for translatable strings. Suppose, your directory setup is like {{{ bin/ bin/activate lib/ lib/python2.6/ lib/python2.6/site-packages/ lib/python2.6/site-packages/contact_form/ lib/python2.6/site-packages/registration/ source/ source/manage.py source/settings.py source/locale/ }}} There is no way including the needed translations for django-contact-form and django-registration in your .po-files using ./manage.py makemessages The attached patch takes care of that by adding a ""-D"" flag (modeled after xgettext's -D flag - http://linux.die.net/man/1/xgettext ) that takes the input directories as parameters. If none is specified the default behaviour (searching in the current directory) is unchanged. " New feature closed Internationalization 1.0 Normal wontfix makemessages i18n Design decision needed 0 0 0 0 0 0