[reportlab-users] 2.2 - distutils versus setuptools

[Andy Robinson]

2008/9/4 Dirk Holtwick <dirk.holtwick at gmail.com>:

> - Another nice feature is, that the script offers a simple way to write a

> continuous build number and the current date and time. This makes

> identifying ad hoc distributions to be identified much easier.


Your approach makes sense.  We do almost exactly the same when we
package whole apps for clients (using our packager which is a lot
simpler than distutils/setuptools), right down to the version.txt file
and including timestamps in the package name.

- Andy