New _m() gettext wrapper with smart detection of plugin domains. Plugin base class registers your gettext files if present at initialization.

update_pot.sh replaced with update_po_templates.php which can do core, plugins, or all (default).
Top-level Makefile added to build .mo files for plugins as well as core.

As described on list:
http://lists.status.net/pipermail/statusnet-dev/2009-December/002869.html

plugins/Mapstraction/locale/Mapstraction.po

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2009-12-07 20:38-0800\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+#: allmap.php:71
+#, php-format
+msgid "%s friends map"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: allmap.php:74
+#, php-format
+msgid "%s friends map, page %d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: map.php:72
+msgid "No such user."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: map.php:79
+msgid "User has no profile."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: usermap.php:71
+#, php-format
+msgid "%s map, page %d"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: MapstractionPlugin.php:180
+msgid "Map"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: MapstractionPlugin.php:191
+msgid "Full size"
+msgstr ""