Bug 180951 – Reportlabs renderPM (new package)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Martin Mokrejš 2007-06-05 12:07:39 UTC]

For biopython stuff I need an upcoming GenomeDiagram package, which will hopefully be soon incorporated into biopython. The package uses reportlab with one of its addons, not installed by default on Gentoo.

http://bioinf.scri.ac.uk/lp/programs.php


Please create a package for http://www.reportlab.co.uk/svn/public/reportlab/trunk/rl_addons/renderPM/ by doing
svn co http://www.reportlab.co.uk/svn/public/reportlab/trunk/rl_addons
cd rl_addons
python setup.py install

[Comment 1 Tiziano Müller (RETIRED) 2007-06-23 08:46:46 UTC]

We're not going to include this in the reportlab-package since upstream "releases" it as a separate package with a separate version number.

[Comment 2 Nick Loeve 2008-06-04 11:02:23 UTC]

Created attachment 155483 [details]
ebuild i use for an work-internal overlay - uses latest svn

Also attaching a source patch to silence a compiler warning

[Comment 3 Nick Loeve 2008-06-04 11:02:48 UTC]

Created attachment 155485 [details, diff]
patch to silence compielr warning

[Comment 4 Nick Loeve 2008-06-04 11:04:13 UTC]

The ebuild i attached is probably not up to scratch for official portage, but you can use it in a an overlay if you prefer to not install unpackaged software :)

[Comment 5 Martin Mokrejš 2010-07-01 08:18:27 UTC]

From http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/install/Installation.html :

<quote>
The ReportLab package is a library for generating PDF documents. It is used in the Biopython Graphics modules, which contains basic functionality for drawing biological objects like chromosomes. If you are not planning on using this, installing ReportLab is not necessary. ReportLab in itself is very useful for a number of tasks besides just Biopython, so you may want to check out http://www.reportlab.org before making your decision.

The main download page for ReportLab is http://www.reportlab.org/downloads.html. The ReportLab company has some commercial products as well, but just scroll down their page to the Open Source software section for the base ReportLab downloads.

If you want to generate bitmap images, you will also need the ReportLab module renderPM. This in turn requires the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
</quote>

Thanks for the ebuild, unfortunately I haven't had a time to test. Hope to do so in some while.

[Comment 6 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2010-10-27 15:29:14 UTC]

Re-assigning to maintainer-wanted for now.

[Comment 7 Jan Matějka (RETIRED) 2013-05-08 04:14:24 UTC]

This plugin seems to be now part of the dev-python/reportlab package itself.

https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/29abc719ec4c542b45e469f19229410a29aa2168/src/rl_addons/renderPM?at=default