[reportlab-users] ReportLab 3.x packaging and deployment

[Michael Hipp]

On 1/13/2014 10:58 AM, Robin Becker wrote:

> On 13/01/2014 15:27, Michael Hipp wrote:



> Michael, I just tried this with one of our daily installers in a 2.7

> environment

>

>> (bbbb) C:\ux\ExeBuilder\aaaa>easy_install

>> ..\exes\reportlab-daily.win32-py2.7.exe


Thanks. I was unaware such a thing was possible. But I think the future 
belongs to pip rather than easy_install.


>> Installed

>> c:\ux\exebuilder\aaaa\bbbb\lib\site-packages\reportlab-daily-py2.7-win32.egg


Does this mean it actually installed to the venv?


> Apparently symantic thinks the exes are virus ridden, I will try and

> make msi files as a possible fix for that.


Wouldn't your time be better spent making wheels instead of exes or 
msis? What I want is for pip to be able to fetch wheels directly from 
pypi and skip the manual download/install steps.

Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Michael