[reportlab-users] Installing ReportLab on Mac

[Reed O'Brien]

On Jan 2, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:


> 2009/1/2 Dirk Holtwick <dirk.holtwick at gmail.com>:

>> Just to drop another name into the round I would like to suggest to  

>> have a

>> look on "pip" ;) Maybe this could at least be a solution for some  

>> dependency

>> troubles.

>>

>> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

>

> This actually looks to me like a big step in the right direction.  I

> wish setuptools had worked this way from day one.  And if it got

> popular we could add a 'setup_pip.py'.  But we won't worry about it

> for our 2.3 release.    I'm taking the view that having a distutils

> "setup.py" is the python standard until Guido says otherwise; but we

> will happily include alternatives contributed by others for them to

> use at their own risk.

>

> IMHO "Real Men" unzip the package, put it on their path, and know what

> extensions they are compiling.  Unix should seek to educate the

> developer.  Sadly there are very few left.


Some of my, um, apps/systems, have dozens of interdependent packages  
as well as several dozen python packages. It would be near if not  
impossible to have half a dozen people unzip configure and compile all  
of these things manually.

Additionally there are multiple target installation environments: OSX,  
RHEL, Fedora (and sometimes ubuntu), Solaris and sometimes FreeBSD. I  
can't imagine the level of effort required to maintain debs, rpms,  
ports, fink, solaris whatevers and so forth.

zc,buildout (which has its own warts) with setuptools and a privately  
maintained index allows maintaining a system that builds development  
and production configurations, repeatably and reliably, for all of the  
above platforms with minimal headache. I am not arguing others should  
do it this way, but I thought I would share why I use non "Real Men"  
methods.

~ro


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> - Andy

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