Re: [Koha-devel] Reports engine

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make it internal to Koha

Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC

> Subj: Re: [Koha-devel] Reports engine 
>  Date: 7/15/2003 8:23:47 AM US Mountain Standard Time
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> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Pierre Cauchois <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >Thanks for your answers. I've looked to everything you suggested, but
> >many of the solutions were in Java, Pascal, or even worse, proprietary
> >software.
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> The use of Java isn't so bad. But I was concerned to see the
> Kylix/Delphi/Pascal suggestion.
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> >... It can be a good example for a front-end, but i think that
> >it's for the best if the engine is directly integrated in Koha,
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> There are several open source report writers. Incoprorating theminto Koha
> might prove to be a better solution. Here's some URLs form my bookmarks.
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> http://datavision.sourceforge.net/        Uses Ruby
> http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/timc/gurgle/    Uses C/C++
> http://agata.codigolivre.org.br/         Uses PHP/Tk
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> >therefore to use a backend in Perl, and a frontend with templates, with
> >export possibilities (rss, csv, etc).
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> A search of cpan.org found me several Perl-specific report writer modules
> that already have hooks into Perl DBI.  Using one of those would surely be
> better than starting from scratch.  Then effort could be put into
> providing a sensible web interface.
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> Regards, Trevor
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> <><Re: deemed!