ReportLab dependency problem

[dmartinc]

ReportLab? is in pypi (Python Package Index) but installing it from there does not work, because it tries to do some C compiling that always fails.

​Its developers say it's not easy_install friendly. They say the user should download the .tar.gz and install it with build / install etc.

Possible solutions:

-make an egg without the C optimizations and host it in one of our servers (similar to one of the solutions proposed for the simplejson problem, ticket #20).

-make a script that downloads the .tar.gz and builds and installs everything.

*Option 1: the user executes this script after installing.

*Option 2: This script will be called by bdist_egg (which is called by easy_install). Make a flag to not execute this script (because when we compile our own egg, we also will call bdist_egg and we do not want to compile reportlab). One problem with this script: the URL to download reportlab is dynamic (web page offers a different server depending on geolocation).

-give up and make a README explaining how to install reportlab.

[pferreir]

Same for PIL... easy_install currently broken (Python 2.6)

[pferreir]

For now people will have to install it from source. I'll move it to 0.98, since this is really minor.