[reportlab-users] 2.2 - distutils versus setuptools

[Robin Becker]

Dirk Holtwick wrote:

> 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?

> 

>.......

The main problem with our setup script is that we need to find freetype2.

It seems that the proper way to do this requires us to override 
build_ext.build_extension so that we can get access to the compiler that gets 
used at build time ie we need to do things inside out as FLundh does for PIL.

The unix way then asks the compiler to search for freetype amongst the library 
dirs that have been set up. The windows way just cannot do that; so we're forced 
back to using a setup.cfg type mechanism.

Have the egg people solved the library search problem?
-- 
Robin Becker