[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.3 release news

[Reed L. O'Brien]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:


> Happy New Year to everybody...

>

Happy New Year

>

> There are 2 debatable issues I would like input on:

>

> (6) Docs and Tests

> We are also reconsidering the decision to split out the docs and tests

> from the code.  This was part (but not all) of the rearrangement we

> did for 2.2.  To be honest, this has caused no end of trouble at our

> end, with non-Python-experts having no idea where to find these

> things.  The manuals and tests are the main source of teaching

> examples, and if someone has done "python setup.py install" and then

> cleaned up wherever they unpacked it, they have lost the docs.

>

>

> Therefore we are considering putting 'docs' and 'tests' UNDER

> 'reportlab' so that they end up 'installed' in site-packages.  This

> seems cleaner to us than having people separately downloading docs and

> demos (as wxPython does), or just plain not finding them.    It will

> require a tedious extension to setup.py to enumerate all the

> non-Python files, but we can live with that.

>

> Does anyone have opinions on this?


Add include_package_data=True to your setup.py, it should include and  
files under SVN control.

see http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools

~ro