[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.2 deployment options

[Stephan Richter]

On Monday 01 September 2008, Andy Robinson wrote:

> Q1. How badly do people want setuptools, eggs, easy_install and so on?

> Is plain old distutils good enough?


Very bad. In our big Zope 3 packages test suite, I have to deactivate z3c.rml 
tests, because of a lack of a proper ReportLab package.


>

> Q2. Should we try to do "batteries included", with the accelerator,

> optional C libraries for rendering bitmaps and the type 1 fonts

> included in the basic package and one setup script to build it all?


setuptools supports extra-includes, where you can specify additional 
dependencies on extended functionality.

Regards,
Stephan
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