Hi, Laimonas Vėbra <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello All, > > If gnucash reporting is moving towards webkit (full featured html > engine), shouldn't we consider using/choosing some kind of mature > (html/xml), standards-aware „templating“ engine/solutions, such as > LAML: > > http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/laml/ > > instead of pseudo templating (unstable, unsteady, poor solution) such > as eguile-gnc, which makes writing reports still complicated, > inelegant. > Don't get we wrong -- it (eguile-gnc) works, but it isn't going to > work/evolve any better than before, and writing reports, reporting > components is just hard, frustrating without some reasonable, common, > solid, mature basis (library). > > Any thoughts, opinions? HTML5 + CSS is the direction we seem to be heading, using e-guile as the template rendering mechanism. But I suspect any major report re-writing is going to happen post-2.4. > Thank you. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [email protected] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
