[reportlab-users] Installing ReportLab on Mac

[Reed L. O'Brien]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:


> I would like any Mac users' advice on installation.  Several of us

> have started working on Macs recently but don't really know the norms

> in the Mac/Python community.  We also had trouble ourselves with

> occasional instabilities involving C code such as PIL, MySQL and other

> extensions we use.

>

> To build reportlab and the extensions on the Mac needs a compiler,

> which is not installed by default; or a pre-build package of some

> kind.  There seem to be several systems for the latter.

>

> We are very interested to know

>

> - how many are using MacPython, and how many use the Python that came

> in the box?


I build custom python(s) to work with and use virtualenv to make  
isolated sandboxes so I don't pollute site-packages and get  
installation conflicts.


> - do most Mac developers just set up their compiler and use distutils

> or setuptools to install Python packages, or do they use this, or

> something else entirely?

>   http://pythonmac.org/packages/


Install XCode and then develop and egg under setup.py develop or using  
zc.buildout.



> - if there are any more 'unknown unknowns' when preparing Python

> packages for the Mac?


There are some things I do so I don't have to work around them  
repeatedly.
1. build some things and install in /usr/local
     - zlib
     - libjpeg
     - libxml2
     - libxslt
     - readline

That is all I can think of now.


> We would consider producing a Mac package if there was enough demand,

> as we may be doing the same for our commercial toolkit as well.


setuptools?


>

>

> Best Regards,

>

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> Andy Robinson

> CEO/Chief Architect

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