Re: [gnome-db] papyrus reporting engine

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 06:20, Andrew Hill wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Papyrus is quite stable and been used in production envoriments for half 
> >>a year now.  It supports mysql and postgresql. It doens't support 
> >>gnome-db, but it would be easy to add support for it.  It just uses a 
> >>library plugin envirment where you write a library that wrapper around 
> >>gnome-db calls, place it in the right directory, and it has gnome-db 
> >>support.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >nice
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The process that it works on is a 3 phase
> >>Resolve all database and function calls in xml file, so only text is in 
> >>the xml file.
> >>Generate a latex file from the xml file (if you use latex engine, could 
> >>use html or ansi engine instead).
> >>Then convert latex file to ps, pdf etc.
> >>
> >>http://papyrus.treshna.com
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >looks good
> >
> >  
> >
> >>At the moment I'm relooking at the sql parser I wrote a while ago for 
> >>gnome-db. I'm not sure if you guys used or not.  Or have done much 
> >>changes. 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >we haven't done many changes, just some compilation fixes. And it's not
> >used too much, just being used in the (unfinished) GdaSelect class.
> >
> >So, first thing to do should be, IMO, to add libgda support to papyrus.
> >Could you point us to the right direction for doing so?
> >
> >cheers
> >
> 
> I think the code needs some work on compiling/installing as well.
> and proberly some renaming etc to fit in with your coding scheme.
> To add gnome-db support cp binding_pg.c to binding_gnomedb.c
> and make the nesserary changes to gnome-db functions from there 
> postgresql ones. Its really relivitively simple.
> Functions will need to be renamed to have correct naming scheme.
> The makefile.am and autoconf needs to be modified to support gnome-db, 
> but that could be just done in you code structure. You may want to redo 
> the makefiles. 
> I can help work on getting it ready to merge I'll just need help from 1 
> or 2 of you to do it.
> 
what do you mean by 'merging'? Putting it in libgda sources?

About the binding_gnomedb, I'll have a look at it myself.

cheers