title: How to have django compile .mo files at startup?
body: <p>What I am trying to achieve is when a django projects starts, have it run compilemessages automatically in a cross-platform way. That way the mo files don't need to be checked into source control, and when translations are added in branches and then merged back conflicts don't occur.</p>
  
  <p>I'm having trouble with this because from what I gather, compilemessages depends on settings.py, so if you try to run it from settings.py it detects the circular reference and then doesn't run.</p>