[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.7 accelerators

[Lele Gaifax]

Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> writes:


> Lele, what platform are you on?


Debian Wheezy


> We have been testing this every way we could think of on Ubuntu, Mac OS and

> Windows for quite a few days.   If I un-tar-gz that file, there is

> definitely a src/rl_addons/rl_accel subdirectory containing the code, and

> the top level 'setup.py install' worked for all of us on the above

> platforms.  I can only presume that in your environment the setup script is

> somehow not finding that subdirectory.


I'd find that rather strange, but we must be talking about a different file::

  $ wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.7.tar.gz#md5=07f39af5aa569a16ce9a979b9a9e63a9
  $ tar tvzf reportlab-2.7.tar.gz |grep accel
  $
  $ tar xOzf reportlab-2.7.tar.gz reportlab-2.7/setup.py | grep accel
  def _find_rl_ccode(dn='rl_accel',cn='_rl_accel.c'):
      '''locate where the accelerator code lives'''
      RL_ACCEL = _find_rl_ccode('rl_accel','_rl_accel.c')
          infoline( '*No rl_accel code found, you can obtain it at     *')
          infoline( '*http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html#_rl_accel*')
          infoline( '#Attempting install of _rl_accel, sgmlop & pyHnj')
                      Extension( '_rl_accel',
                                  [pjoin(RL_ACCEL,'_rl_accel.c')],
          infoline( '!No rl_accel code found, you can obtain it at     !')

So, effectively the setup.py tries to find the C version, but it cannot
find it and thus emits the message about obtaining it from the net.


> The reduction in file size is possibly because we have been deliberately

> removing obsolete documentation and examples.


I bet that there's something that should be put back :-) At least on the
archive uploaded on PyPI. Later I'll try to download it from rl.org
site.

Thank you,
ciao, lele.
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