[reportlab-users] Widget Libraries, anywhere??

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Wednesday 08 October 2003 18:10, Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Tim Roberts:
> > Perhaps you should give some specific examples.  Code contributions are
> > always welcome, of course!
>
> Sure! I wrote some grids you might already know:
>
>    reportlab/graphics/widgets/grids.py
>
> and some parts of the chart widgets you are perhaps using:
>
>    reportlab/graphics/charts
>
> You can also use svglib to render SVG into RL drawings (widgets):
>
>    http://python.net/~gherman/svglib.html
>
> And there is an increasing body of so far publically largely unre-
> leased stuff like:
>
>    http://python.net/~gherman/CircularString.html
>    http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/TelcoInvoice.pdf
>    http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/PyPy.pdf
>
> I'm happy to contribute stuff, but I wonder how much others are
> contributing?

I'm new on this list and new to ReportLab, so hopefully I'm not missing the 
mark here completely.

What I would like to see here is a website for 'community contributions'.  At 
the very least such as site would allow uses to submit their 
widgets/extentions to reportlab and act as a single source site for such 
contributions.  Ideally each contributor would be able to set up their own 
'reportlab homepage' where they can describe their widget/extension and how 
to use it etc.  The site could either be part of www.reportlab.org, or it 
could be done completely independantly by the 'community' itself. Personally 
I would prefer such a site to be part of www.reportlab.org, as it would keep 
things together and on the whole I think gives the project a better 'feel'.

What do others think of this?

Even if it was to be hosted as part of reportlab.org, I would not be expecting 
ReportLab Inc to have to spend (much) time on getting this set up.  I believe 
that if the community wants it then it should build it - and I am more than 
willing to help.

Cheers,

Rasjid.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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