On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:00:34PM +0000, Rob Browning wrote:
>
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> In other news, the upstream plotutils maintainer made the change I
> requested to support swig. Now theoretically, I could start working
> on the graphing stuff again. However, with all this talk of
> HTML/SGML/XML reports, I'm wondering what the right approach is. I
> chose plotutils because it has *really* broad support for postscript,
> plotters, xfig, etc, and it can render to a file, to an Xwindow, to an
> Xdrawable, etc. But I'm not sure how this would fit in with the
> current "repoorts" work. If we're using XmHTML, it seems like we
> might want to consider rendering to a .png or something (with alpha
> channels we could even overlay graphs with transparency -- is that
> useful?) and drop the images onto the "report".
>
> Thoughts?
>
Not to harp (harp harp harp) but you could rewrite the graphing stuff as
a PHP or apache module. I am sure the PHP people would love to have some
good-quality graphing stuff.
Three more advantages for the full-blown http approach (thought of these
today).
1) OFX. Right in the OFX docs they say "could be implemented as a CGI".
They use HTTP and SGML for messages. Pretty much suggests that HTTP
/SGML is up to the job. (OFX scales).
2) "cashdot". Need I say more? One (or more) servers providing the
application to a lot of users, through a SSL secured web interface.
3) E-Commerce integration. Web store operators/ISPs integrate GnuCash
right into their store as the "back end", altering the "skins" a little
perhaps.
Doug
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