Use flit-gettext to compile gettext in distributions

Author: codingjoe

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.x"
+      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gettext
       - name: Install Python dependencies
         run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip build wheel twine readme-renderer
       - run: python -m build --sdist --wheel

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v6
         with:
           python-version: "3.x"
+      - run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gettext
       - run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip build wheel
       - run: python -m build --sdist --wheel
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v5

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["flit_core>=3.2", "flit_scm", "wheel"]
-build-backend = "flit_scm:buildapi"
+requires = ["flit-gettext[scm]", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "flit_gettext.scm"
 
 [project]
 name = "django-mail-auth"