Also, I couldn't get the translation script to work. It would simply fail saying it can't generate the *.mo files (forget exactly what it was saying). I lost a lot of time with that. And the deploy script fails without those translation files. So I finally tried to see what would happen if I just commented out that part of the script where it checks for the translation files, and I didn't have any issues. Since I'm American and I think EN_US is default, I guess I didn't need them.
From @Hisma on forum thread: