On Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:47 -0700, "Dan Means" <dkmeans@gmail.com> wrote:

>

> Not sure how you'd use it in a Python app -- it's QT based, and C++

> based,

> not Python based.

>

Yeah, that's the problem.

> and a hell of a lot easier to use than Jasper/ Pentaho

> stuff.

I've got Jasper installed in Ubuntu, and it looks very powerful, but

unless you're developing in Java you have to use the Jasper report

server and call reports programmatically against that, which might be

too heavy a solution for smallish applications. You'd have the added

complication of Tomcat and MySQL. I've looked at Pentaho too, but it

seems to be a maze of different applications which all seemed to have

previously called something else, and it's completely unclear from their

website as to exactly what one would require for any given application.

There's just some gaping holes in the toolchain if you wanted to do

desktop apps with Python (present Dabo company excluded of course!)

We were so spoiled with VFP ...

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Alan Bourke

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