[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.2 deployment options

[Robin Becker]

We just had a show and tell in the office and it seems quite hard to do this 
generally for all distributions. For example even using the reportlab test suite 
fails. By default we build the documents in place during the test and lo and 
behold the user installed as root and then tested as a user. He failed one test 
because we tried to build the user documents in 
/usr/lib/...site-packages/reportlab/docs.

Of course you could argue that the tests shouldn't be installed by default or 
that the document builder should respect the 'correct' location for documents eg 
some variation of /usr/local/share /usr/share /share etc etc etc.

The problem with distutils and by implication similar tools is that so far they 
have failed to abstract the logic for this into some usable api.

The renderpm stuff depends on freetype a fairly common installation on unix 
systems, but I look in vain for the correct way to obtain the right settings. In 
the end we all copy from our favourite proxy setup.py (I think I followed 
PIL's). Do we end up just duplicating autoconf or is there some easier way with 
easyinstall?
-- 
Robin Becker