[reportlab-users] Status of ReportLab Toolkit 2.x versions

[Robin Becker]

Yves Forkl wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I have successfully used ReportLab Toolkit 1.20 some time ago. Now I am 

> happy to read that, starting from version 2.0, it even supports Unicode 

> input, so I wanted to upgrade.

> 

> But I am not sure which package to download for use under Linux, as I 

> have discovered at http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html that there 

> are Windows DLLs labeled 2.5 available while the only source tarball 

> offered at that page is called ReportLab_2_0.tgz. There also is a 

> "current.tgz" in the FTP directory at ftp://ftp.reportlab.com/ whose 

> contents do not match those of ReportLab_2_0.tgz.

> 

> As I couldn't find any information about the versions past 2.0, I'm 

> puzzled: Which version should I take? Is "current.tgz" equal to version 

> 2.5? Which one is the last version that is considered stable?

> 

> Where can I find documentation about the changes since version 2.0 up to 

> "current.tgz"?

> 

>    Yves

> 

>......



The dll numbers relate to the appropriate python version. So we have the same 
code compiled against 2.4 and 2.5 these days.


The latest release of the open source is 2.0, but there are many later changes 
which end up in the daily snapshots. You can see all the changes at

http://www.reportlab.co.uk/svn/public/reportlab/trunk

for info about subversion see http://www.reportlab.org/subversion.html or 
http://subversion.tigris.org/.
-- 
Robin Becker