build(make): add translation generation

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 output
 __pycache__
 *.pid
-plugins
 cache

.gitmodules

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 [submodule "themes/clean-blog"]
 	path = themes/clean-blog
 	url = https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-clean-blog.git
+[submodule "plugins/autopages"]
+	path = plugins/autopages
+	url = https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-autopages.git
+[submodule "plugins/i18n_subsites"]
+	path = plugins/i18n_subsites
+	url = https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-i18n_subsites.git

Makefile

@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ publish:
 clean:
 	uv run invoke clean
 
-init:
+%.mo: %.po
+	msgfmt "$^" -o "$@"
+
+init: themes/clean-blog/translations/fr/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo
 	uv sync
 
 .PHONY: clean build publish dev init

readme.md

@@ -9,26 +9,32 @@ software:
 - `git`
 - `make`
 - `uv`
+- `gettext`
 
 To synchronise the blog remotely with its intended target, the synchronisation
 is done using `rsync` over `ssh`.
 
 # Install
 
-To install a local copy to work on this blog, you also need the theme for it,
+To install a local copy to work on this blog, you also need other components,
-available [there](https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-clean-blog). It is
+such as the [theme](https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-clean-blog) and
-embedded in the repository as a git submodule, so you can simply run git clone
+[some](https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-autopages)
-with the `--recurse-submodule` option:
+[plugins](https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/pelican-clean-blog). Those are embedded
+in the repository as a git submodule. You can thus simply run git clone with the
+`--recurse-submodule` option:
 
 ```sh
-git clone -- recurse-submodule https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/blog.git fmouhart-blog
+git clone --recurse-submodule https://git.epheme.re/fmouhart/blog.git fmouhart-blog
 ```
 
 This blog relies on [pelican](https://getpelican.com) as a static site
 generator. To manage the different python dependencies of this project, we are
 using [`uv`](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv) as a python project manager.
 
-To download the dependencies, run `uv sync` or:
+Moreover, translations are managed with python `gettext` which requires
+compiling the translation file.
+
+Those two steps are performed with the following command:
 
 ```sh
 make init
@@ -36,7 +42,8 @@ make init
 
 # Development
 
-When writing an article, you can run the blog with livereload enabled with the command:
+When writing an article, you can run the blog with `livereload` enabled with the
+command:
 
 ```sh
 make dev