On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 04:51:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that David Merrill said:
> > I'll also mention that psql spits out its tables in customizable html,
> > and can be run via cgi scripts. You can write shell scripts or perl 
> > scripts to execute queries and retrieve the results in html tables.
> 
> This is of course a possiblity, but the simplest thing to do would be
> to use libgnc_engine.so, as it stands today, ause it to create a
> cgi-bin, and use its xml-file-io capabilites to push the data to
> stdout.
> 
> > Which I like.
> 
> Thanks.

You're welcome. :-)

> Of course, we still need to have libgnc_engine talk to an sql
> database, and still need to slove the caching problems, and a bunch
> of other issues.  But I think a cheapo demo could be done really 
> quick (a few days/weeks) by someone who knows apache & cgi-bin,
> and cares to learn about libgnc_engine and its api.

I would love to do this, but I can't right now. This really is too big
of a project for one person, and I have my hands full for the moment
doing the database itself.

-- 
Dr. David C. Merrill                     http://www.lupercalia.net
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Everything She touches, changes.
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