makemessages for an app installed in virtualenv

django, django-multilingual

Solution

Within my project directory I make a (temporary) symlink to the app in my virtualenv and then I run the makemessages command like:

../manage.py makemessages -l nl --symlinks

After the *.po files is created I remove the symlink..

Problem

I've installed a Django App to my virtualenv, and I would like to add extra translations to that App. Is it possible to import the messages from an app installed in a virtualenv to my django.po in my project's `locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES` folder? Alternatively, should I translate the 3rd party app? If so, how can I use `makemessages` to generate the messages in the app installed in the virtualenv?

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