On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:00:00PM +0000, John Rouillard wrote:
> >Hmm, the directory is not existing: It is not supposed to: I've never
> >installed roundup on that test-machine. So it is expected that the
> >directory doesn't exist.
> 
> That's wierd because the code reads:
[...]

I think it's the code starting line 48:

# compute mo location relative to roundup installation directory
# (prefix/lib/python/site-packages/roundup/msgfmt.py on posix systems,
# prefix/lib/site-packages/roundup/msgfmt.py on windows).
# locale root is prefix/share/locale.
if os.name == "nt":
    _mo_path = [".."] * 4 + ["share", "locale"]
else:
    _mo_path = [".."] * 5 + ["share", "locale"]
_mo_path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(msgfmt.__file__, *_mo_path))
if _mo_path not in LOCALE_DIRS:
    LOCALE_DIRS.append(_mo_path)
del _mo_path

This subtracts 5 directory components from the filename on Linux and
then appends /share/locale

Ralf
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