[reportlab-users] 2.2 - distutils versus setuptools

[Dirk Holtwick]

Andy Robinson schrieb:

> Are there any volunteers willing to "maintain" egg-related matters over

> the next few weeks? i.e. contribute a script, do some testing, and field

> any followup requests arising from it?


My personal opinion is that the recent setup script is by far too 
complex but I don't know how to make it better ;)

As a starting point I added a SetupTools script that just does the basic 
stuff. It collects all needed data and that's it. You can test it by 
starting it like this:

$ python setup_egg.py sdist -k

It will produce a directory containing all collected data. To create 
EGGs do like this

$ python setup_egg.py bdist_egg

This way you get a nice EGG placed in "dist". Open it with an unzipper 
to look inside the EGG. You will see, there are just the essential data 
included ;)

If you type

$ python setup_egg.py bdist_egg upload

the EGG will be published to PYPI. But this is another lesson ;)

As a plus I added a small script setup_version.py that modifies version 
information of specific files files. The version number is placed in 
VERSION.txt. (BTW I recommend changing names to upper case for the other 
files too, like LICENSE.txt etc)

Hope this helps. If you need further assistance please let me know.

Dirk



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