[smc-discuss] pypdf build system and github/non-free service (was Re: Project: PyPDFLib)

[Kurian O.S ™ ®]

I am oke with PIL also santhosh mashe

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Santhosh Thottingal <
santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ---- On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:31:51 -0700 Kurian O.S ™ ®  wrote ----
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> >I am oke with that , but here is the problem if the user dont have that
> lib installed in there system then we need to force them to install
> >is that oke ?
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> Few things we need to take care.
> 1. The library should have python bindings  - graphicsmagick has python
> wrapper. but that brings additional dependecies
> libgraphicsmagick++-dev
> libboost-python1.40-dev
> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pgmagick/0.2.4)
> 2. It should be running on all Operating systems
> 3. It should be only an image library - (gtk is not)
> 4. Should match the requirements of cairo.
> 5. Package dependecies- the library may be simple and small , but consider
> the dependencies it has.
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> note: reportlab(we are trying to  build alternative for that)  uses PIL
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> But before taking any such decision, please go through this thread :
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-January/009096.html (it
> is bit lengthy)
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> Thanks
> Santhosh
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