[reportlab-users] Pypi package incorrect

[Mike Driscoll]

On 3/5/2010 9:05 AM, Andy Robinson wrote:

> On 5 March 2010 14:52, Mike Driscoll<mdriscoll at co.marshall.ia.us>  wrote:

>    

>> Some people seem to think that "distribute" is the new thing:

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

>>      

> Yes, and I have NO intention of putting in ever-growing amounts of

> staff time trying to cater to all of them  ;-)

>

> I'be just been talking to my colleagues on what we did last time.  To

> date we have prepared packages with 'svn export', tar, and a script

> which applies some python-version-specific packages.  For the PyPi

> distro we manually created the extra file it needs and ensured it was

> in place in the tar file; it then all appeared to work fine for

> easy_install.

>

> If it makes things better for other tools, we are happy to switch over

> to (a) using 'setup.py sdist' and (b) changing the naming convention

> of the archive and the top-level directory inside it.

>

> - Andy

>    


At this time, I don't use anything except the Windows installer, 
easy_install or the "python package install" methods when I install 
packages. I just thought I should mention "distribute" since it seems to 
be the newest one with support.

- Mike