[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.2 has been released

[Dirk Holtwick]

Congratulations!

It look a lot cleaner now. But I have some remarks that might be of 
interest for the 2.2.1 release regarding the structure of the distribution:

- There is an "install" section in README.txt and INSTALL.txt. I think 
INSTALL.txt should be included into README.txt to avoid confusion

- CHANGES.txt is more or less a SVN dump. But common users may get 
confused. I think the section "NEW FEATURES" of this email would be more 
expressive for someone who has to decide if switching to the new version 
is appropriate

- You got many Readme's with different filenames like: "00readme.txt", 
"README" (in src\reportlab\graphics\barcode), and I found a second 
license file (in src\reportlab). There is also a MANIFEST.in (in 
src\reportlab) of which I'm not sure if it is needed in this place. 
Maybe a little cleanup and renaming/ moving would be nice to get a 
consistent naming. Also adding expressive  Readmes to /demos and /tools 
would be great to give a little overview what the subprojects are good for

- In the old distribution the doc files (as PDF) where already be 
generated - if I remember right? Please add them again, because it is 
not trivial to generate them. For many people this will be the first 
point where they go to decide if it is an interesting tool.

- The version of setup_egg.py is still "2.2pre".

- A Windows pre compiled version would be nice, because not all Python 
programmers own MS C++ Development Suite (like me :) [Eggs would solve 
this problem too ;)]

And finally you should consider updating your PyPI entry, it is still 
version 2.0 ;) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/reportlab/2.0

Dirk


Robin Becker schrieb:

> Version 2.2 of the ReportLab open-source tool kit is out!  You find 

> downloads and src instructions at http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html.

> 

> Contributions

> =============

> Thanks to everybody who has contributed to the open-source toolkit in 

> the run-up to the 2.2 release, whether by reporting bugs, sending 

> patches, or contributing to the reportlab-users mailing list. Thanks 

> especially to the following people, who contributed code that has gone 

> into 2.2: including, but not limited to (apologies to any missed out) 

> Matt Folwell, Jerome Alet, Harald Armin Massa, kevin at booksys.com, 

> Sebastian Ware, Martin Tate, Wietse Jacobs, Christian Jacobs, Volker 

> Haas, Dinu Gherman, Dirk Datzert & Yuan Hong.

> 

> If we missed you, please let us know!

> 

> 

> New Features

> ============

> PDF

>     pdfmetrics: Added registerFontFamily function

>     Basic support for pdf document viewer preferences (e.g.: fullscreen).

> 

> Platypus

>     Paragraph <img> tag support for inline images.

>     Paragraph autoleading support (helps with <img> tags).

>     Platypus doctemplate programming support.

>     Support for tables with non-uniform row length.

> 

> Graphics

>     RGBA image support for suitable bitmap types.

>     LTO labelling barcode.

> 

> And many bugfixes...