I started working on one of my internationalized applications on the new Mac. I realized I did not install "gettext", which is required by the make-messages and compile-messages scripts. I want to avoid installing things into OS X if I can. Then I found the easy way out: 1. Install poedit for os x. I need this to edit po files anyway. You can download it here. 2. There is no step two -- poedit for OS X comes with (obviously) all the gettext tools.

o.k. There is a little step two. You want to include the path to those tools when you run compile-messages. Create a little script like this:

PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Poedit.app/Contents/MacOS/ python /Library/python/2.5/site-packages/django/bin/compile-messages.py

and run this script instead of running compile-messages directly.