[reportlab-users] easy_install reportlab

[Carl Karsten]

reportlab could be installed with easy_install if the ReportLab_2_1.tgz file 
were built like this:

carl at vaio:~/temp$ wget  http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/ReportLab_2_1.tgz
carl at vaio:~/temp$ tar xvf ReportLab_2_1.tgz
carl at vaio:~/temp$ cd reportlab_2_1/reportlab/
carl at vaio:~/temp/reportlab_2_1/reportlab$ python setup.py sdist

creates a file that can be installed with easy_install:

carl at vaio:~$ sudo easy_install 
temp/reportlab_2_1/reportlab/dist/Reportlab-2.1.tar.gz

which means people can do:
carl at vaio:~$ sudo easy_install http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/ReportLab_2_1.tgz

and not get:
error: Couldn't find a setup script in /tmp/easy_install-6T6IPH/ReportLab_2_1.tgz

And it might even get picked up when being installed with just:

carl at vaio:~$ sudo easy_install reportlab
Searching for reportlab
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/reportlab/
Reading http://www.reportlab.com/
Reading http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html
Reading http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/reportlab/2.0
No local packages or download links found for reportlab
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('reportlab')

Any reason why this shouldn't happen?

Carl K