[Zope] Zope and R

A.J. Rossini rossini@u.washington.edu
06 Feb 2002 05:49:51 -0800


>>>>> "RB" == Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de> writes:


    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.

best,
-tony

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