[Zope] Zope and R

Ragnar Beer rbeer@uni-goettingen.de
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:09:35 +0100


>     RB> Hmm, do you mean RSPython shouldn't be used in a production
>     RB> environment because RSPython *itself* isn't ready for
>     RB> production or would it rather be *my* code that'd crash for
>     RB> trial-and-error reasons?
> 
>     >> I know nothing about your coding, but I'm intimately familiar
>     >> with the internal guts of RSPython.  I'd predict the former, no
>     >> matter how good the latter is :-).
>  
>     RB> Heehee :) So it seems like I'll have to take a closer look at
>     RB> GDChart. In the future I'll probably have to generate PDF
>     RB> reports containing EPS graphics but I can always have a cron
>     RB> job running that generates the graphics etc. and then serve
>     RB> that stuff from the filesystem.
> 
> Actually, you probably can do that all on the fly in Zope (since you
> could use png instead of eps for PDF docs, though I'm sure that using
> one of the image conversion tools linked through Python
> (i.e. ImageMagick has python bindings, I thought?) or native python
> tools would work.

You mean GDChart can also produce vector images? That would be cool!
GDChart's documentation is a bit shortish ... Perhaps I should take the
painful way and look a the source.

Cheers, 

Ragnar