[reportlab-users] Install fails under virtualenv

[Robin Becker]

Tim Lesher wrote:

> I'm trying to install ReportLab toolkit 2.1 in a virtualenv environment

> (i.e., without root privileges), but installation is failing.

> 

> The issue seems to be the manual path munging that the setup.py script does

> in package_home().  It always picks up the system-wide lib installation,

> rather than the local one.

> 

> Is there any reason not to use distutils' package_data argument to setup()

> instead?

> 

> Just removing "data_files=DATA_FILES.items()" and replacing it with

> "package_data={'reportlab': _FILES}" appears to do the right thing in my

> testing.

.......

unfortunately I think a lot of the setup.py code has been contributed by 
more than one person. I think the DATA_FILES setup is attempting to 
ensure that non-python code/data gets placed at the right place. It's 
using distutils' view of where home should be, not what distutils will 
really use. I suppose that code is now bad for your usage. Does anyone 
know the semantic difference between date_files and package_data?
-- 
Robin Becker