Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:03:29AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: >> As I've said over and over, the REAL answer is to integrate >> e-guile and then invoices could be an HTML-template with embedded >> guile, instead of a scheme program that happens to generate HTML. >> I'm still waiting for someone to offer to implement that. :-D > > Just for the record, and because, as you point out, this has been > repeated several times... > > I agree that the solution is an html templating system. However, > there are many better examples than eguile, if one is willing to use > a scripting language other than guile. > > I, for one, would not recommend anyone actually attempt to integrate > e-guile, as that is essentially equivalent to writing and maintaining > our own templating system. Also, I think it's very unlikely that anyone > will ever get it to do anything impressive.
I strongly agree with this, on all points. > Instead, if there is anyone interested, I would recommend that they > adapt the swig .i files to the popular scripting language of their > preference, and use the popular templating system of their choice. > This is a far better engineering decision, IMO, and far easier to do, > also. It's probably about 80 hours work to the initial working system > for someone already familiar with the relevant tools. While certainly people are free to do as they will, I think it makes sense to have a rational discussion about the particular language/templating system. > If I only had the time... I strongly agree with this, too. :/ -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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