[web2py:14089] Re: reportlab in web2py?

[Timothy Farrell]

-1 It's too heavy.  Also, reportlab is a fairly low-level API.  Unless you're going to write a higher-level abstraction layer, it wouldn't "fit" in web2py.  Plus, most people will want to take advantage of the speedups (which can't be included in the source version of web2py). Pisa fits the niceness of API criteria but relying on reportlabs still makes it too big. my 2c -tim mdipierro wrote: Should we include reportlab in web2py? pros: web2py lacks printing capability and pdf output may be a solution the license allows it cons: it doubles the size of web2py there are alternative such as the openoffice APIs it requires creating a site-package folder and add it the path Comments? Massimo -- Timothy Farrell <tfarr...@swgen.com> Computer Guy Statewide General Insurance Agency (www.swgen.com) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---