[reportlab-users] Windows installers for Python 2.7

[Peter]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:

>

> On 18 August 2010 14:38, Peter <peter at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>> Hi all,

>>

>> Are there any plans to release a ReportLab 32bit Windows Installer

>> for Python 2.7 (released 4 July 2010)? ReportLab 2.4.x would be

>> fine.

>>

>> I don't actually *need* this, I just wanted to run our unit tests under

>> Windows with Python 2.7.

>

> We've been doing daily builds in our commercial download area for some

> time but it seems we didn't update the build script for the open

> source area.  I have just copied last night's builds across for you.

>

>     http://www.reportlab.com/ftp/reportlab-daily.win32-py2.7.exe

>

> Ditto for anyone needing EXEs for earlier pythons.

>

> The only hitch at the moment is that there isn't yet an 'official'

> build of PIL for Python 2.7 as a windows EXE installer which may

> hinder some users.


Cheers - our tests didn't show up any issues (except for bitmap
output which of course needs PIL).

As an aside, running with -3 did show one Python 3 issue in the
current ReportLab code:

c:\python27\lib\site-packages\reportlab\pdfbase\pdfmetrics.py:727:
DeprecationWarning: The 'new' module has been removed in Python 3.0;
use the 'types' module instead. import new

(Much better than ReportLab 2.4 which I have installed for
Python 2.6 on this machine - I can see you've been working
on this).

Thanks,

Peter