diff -r 6641e941ef1e -r ff1a9aa48cfd app/django/core/management/commands/compilemessages.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/app/django/core/management/commands/compilemessages.py	Tue Oct 14 16:00:59 2008 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import os
+import sys
+from optparse import make_option
+from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError
+
+try:
+    set
+except NameError:
+    from sets import Set as set     # For Python 2.3
+
+def compile_messages(locale=None):
+    basedirs = [os.path.join('conf', 'locale'), 'locale']
+    if os.environ.get('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'):
+        from django.conf import settings
+        basedirs.extend(settings.LOCALE_PATHS)
+
+    # Gather existing directories.
+    basedirs = set(map(os.path.abspath, filter(os.path.isdir, basedirs)))
+
+    if not basedirs:
+        raise CommandError("This script should be run from the Django SVN tree or your project or app tree, or with the settings module specified.")
+
+    for basedir in basedirs:
+        if locale:
+            basedir = os.path.join(basedir, locale, 'LC_MESSAGES')
+        for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(basedir):
+            for f in filenames:
+                if f.endswith('.po'):
+                    sys.stderr.write('processing file %s in %s\n' % (f, dirpath))
+                    pf = os.path.splitext(os.path.join(dirpath, f))[0]
+                    # Store the names of the .mo and .po files in an environment
+                    # variable, rather than doing a string replacement into the
+                    # command, so that we can take advantage of shell quoting, to
+                    # quote any malicious characters/escaping.
+                    # See http://cyberelk.net/tim/articles/cmdline/ar01s02.html
+                    os.environ['djangocompilemo'] = pf + '.mo'
+                    os.environ['djangocompilepo'] = pf + '.po'
+                    if sys.platform == 'win32': # Different shell-variable syntax
+                        cmd = 'msgfmt --check-format -o "%djangocompilemo%" "%djangocompilepo%"'
+                    else:
+                        cmd = 'msgfmt --check-format -o "$djangocompilemo" "$djangocompilepo"'
+                    os.system(cmd)
+
+
+class Command(BaseCommand):
+    option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + (
+        make_option('--locale', '-l', dest='locale',
+            help='The locale to process. Default is to process all.'),
+    )
+    help = 'Compiles .po files to .mo files for use with builtin gettext support.'
+
+    requires_model_validation = False
+    can_import_settings = False
+
+    def handle(self, **options):
+        locale = options.get('locale')
+        compile_messages(locale)