makemessages is ignoring templates outside the project

[ChillarAnand]

We have separate repos for frontend and backend code. We are able to use templates from other packages after adding them to template dir path.

However, makemessages is ignoring those templates and not generating messages for these files. Shouldn't makemessages process all template directories?

[Tim Graham]

Could you please explain the issue in more detail (i.e. give steps or a sample project to reproduce)?

[Claude Paroz]

I can confirm that currently makemessages only search files in the directory from which you are running the command.

It's a bit unusual to have template dirs outside of the project directory. I would be tempted to say that you could solve your issue through symbolic links…

[ChillarAnand]

Symlinks will solve the problem.

There are several 3rd party apps which provide templates which have a trans tag like this: ​https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/blob/4a6df009ff98255e03a122eb9ea4a90c5eb2aa35/allauth/templates/account/account_inactive.html#L5. If user adds this directory to templates directory path, the entire templating system works except trans tag. Now users have to add symlinks for all files to make trans tag work?

[Simon Charette]

ChillarAnand, in this case I think it's expected for third party apps to ship their own translations if they use {% trans %} which allauth ​seems to do?

[Claude Paroz]

Confirmed Simon's analysis, reusable apps are supposed to provide translations for their templates. and other strings.