[reportlab-users] 2.2 - distutils versus setuptools

[Ralf Schmitt]

Andy Robinson wrote:

> We decided today that we'll concentrate our own efforts this week and

> next on an initial 2.2 candidate with plain old distutils.  The

> package rearrangement is pretty much as Dirk suggested, with an

> explicit src/ subdirectory, and all demos/tests/docs separate to this.

> 

> I have no problem with subsequently making up a setuptools-based

> distribution, or adding an alternate "setuptools-setup.py" script in

> the package if that's workable.  We could probably do this a week or

> two later.  But we'd have to rely on a few egg-lovers to get that

> script right.

> 


Have a look at:

http://code.pediapress.com/hg/mwlib.ext/file/591826c10e77/setup.py

We packaged reportlab and the _rl_accel module as an "external 
dependency" for the mwlib library under the name mwlib.ext.
The complete repo can be found here:
http://code.pediapress.com/hg/mwlib.ext/

- Ralf