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

[Yves Forkl]

Robin Becker schrieb:

> Yves Forkl wrote:

>> [...]

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

>> puzzled: Which version should I take? [...]

>> 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"?



> The dll numbers relate to the appropriate python version. So we have the same 

> code compiled against 2.4 and 2.5 these days.


This would have been my second guess at the numbers' meaning... Anyway, 
as far as using the source code under Linux is concerned, would you 
recommend Python 2.4 or rather 2.5?



> 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


Thank you for pointing me to your SVN repository. I am familiar with 
SVN, but excuse me for nagging, my questions were:

- Which one is the last version that is considered stable? I.e.: Are all 
the daily snapshots considered beta or alpha (or whatever)?

- Where can I find documentation about the changes since version 2.0? I 
thought of some lines like "setup.py: Fixed loading of rl_accel, Added 
Vera fonts" etc.

I am sorry but I don't see how the Web view on your SVN repo would 
provide me with this information. (Even if I wanted to diff the code 
myself - not sure if there's already a Web-based diffing utility for SVN 
like there is for CVS...)

To cut a long story short: I am just a bit frustrated about not knowing 
whether to choose the plain 2.0 version of the excellent ReportLab 
Toolkit or rather an earlier snapshot. So I am kindly asking you: Can 
you help me with this decision? Which bugs have been resolved, which 
features have been added since 23 May 2006?

   Yves