[reportlab-users] More 2.2 questions - package rearrangement

[Dirk Holtwick]

Andy Robinson schrieb:

> Not sure about reportlab/fonts. If people want it to work "out of the box"

> with the bitmap graphics  then we must include a specific set of base fonts

> where the code can always find them.   If people unzip to a temporary

> directory and

> run 'setup.py install', they want a library that "just works" - this includes

> making a chart, adding some text and saving it to a .png.


But as you mentioned before these are features of a somewhat "extended" 
reportlab version that also needs PIL and renderPM I suppose? Are they 
really needed there or are they just needed by the tests and demos? If 
the fonts are not essential to the toolkit I would vote for putting them 
somewhere else...

A practical example is Google App Engine: they just allow 1000 files to 
be uploaded. Okay, this will change some day and it can be worked around 
easily, but for most users it will be difficult to find out which files 
are really needed by reportlab and which are not.

Maybe the best would be to put them not in the reportlab directory and 
give a warning (and a hint where to find them) if the files are needed 
but missing ;)

Dirk