[reportlab-users] ReportLab 2.7 accelerators

[Andy Robinson]

This looks like a great idea.  Thank you.

- Andy


On 5 April 2013 08:55, Marius Gedminas <marius at gedmin.as> wrote:


> On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 11:17:39PM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:

> > This is now fixed.  I chose 'option 2' and uploaded the tested tar.gz

> file,

> > and have just completed an installation with 'easy_install reportlab' in

> a

> > virtualenv.

> >

> > I am guessing my colleague followed 'option 1' in the PyPI instructions

> and

> > ran 'setup.py upload'.  Now we know that this doesn't work, for us at

> > least.   Clearly, 'setup.py sdist' and 'setup.py upload' have somehow

> > attempted to 'improve' on easily understood deployment concepts like

> > 'tar/gzip' and 'scp'.

>

> setup.py sdist tries to avoid including junk files in the source

> archive, and often errs by excluding too much.

>

> You can write a file called MANIFEST.in to specify which files must be

> included:

> http://docs.python.org/2/distutils/sourcedist.html#manifest-template

>

> I've a tool -- https://pypi.python.org/pypi/check-manifest -- that can

> help with this.

>

> > However, we'll be doing a lot more rearranging before the next version,

> and

> > hopefully simplifying our setup.py as we do it, so hopefully we will end

> up

> > compliant with distutils eventually.

> >

> > Thanks for bringing this to our attention, and my apologies to anyone

> else

> > who bumped into this.

>

> Marius Gedminas

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