> Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Are there plans for phasing out the eperl stuff and using
> > something else for report generation?
>
> That's the general plan, though there's nothing too concrete at the
> moment.
Good :) eperl seems like a pain to install. I've never actually
gotten it to work, though I haven't tried too hard.
Will we be removing swig as well?
> I haven't looked into the current report generation stuff, and I'm not
> really familiar with XmHTML, but would it be possible to just generate
> a big string in scheme using call-with-output-string and then hand
> that over to our HTML widget? We could always do something fancier
> later, once we determine what that something should be...
You can give the HTML widget an HTML string, yes.
As I understand it, the way report generation works now is that
eperl is invoked on an html file with embedded perl commands which
use the perl<->engine bindings to calculate the values to put in the
report.
dave
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