[reportlab-users] Voice in the wilderness (was : Widget Libraries, anywhere?)

[Ian Sparks]

Dinu's original complaint was that there don't seem to be a lot of =
(any?) 3rd party widgets available for ReportLab despite RL being quite =
widely used.

If the fundamental question is : Why arn't there more 3rd party widgets? =
"Lets build a website" is not an answer, its just changing the subject =
so we can talk about things we feel more comfortable with, like the =
relative merits of SF vs Wiki's.

I'm not trying to rain on the parade here but I think that there isn't a =
market for 3rd party Widgets because there isn't a sufficient *demand* =
for 3rd party widgets - ReportLab is too complete and makes it too easy =
to "just do it" and move on.

I think a website would help if the RL newsgroup was drowning in =
contributions and we needed a way to categorize and organize them but it =
doesn't look that way to me.=20

If contributions were water we'd be dying of thirst. We intend to solve =
this by making a bucket?=20

I can't decide if I'm a dry, old, cynical, git or if I'm the voice of =
reason. Maybe both.



-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Robinson [mailto:andy@reportlab.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 9:17 AM
To: Rasjid Wilcox; reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Subject: RE: [reportlab-users] Widget Libraries, anywhere??


> Anyway, those are my thoughts.  I have more to say about MySource, =
mainly=20
> because I know more about it.  Others are free to express their =
theirs.
>=20

Thanks.  We're going to talk about this in the office tomorrow.
(the guys have a big deadline until 15:00 today

Our constraint #1 is that we have a dedicated server from
Pair Networks without a root account, and we don't want
to share the accunt password with lots of maintainers.
So installing anything which needs a long running process
needs their approval. In general we are very happy with our web=20
hosts.

We'll be thinking through if we can use our own 'core technology'
i.e. CVS and a templating system - to let people contribute site
content under certain marked areas as well as code.  It
should be easy to make a 'dot-org' project parallel to
reportlab's code, and I am told it is possible to have different
access controls, so anyone who wished to contribute could quickly
be given write access to a subdirectory of this, and click a
link to pull content from what they had checked in onto
the server.  I am sure there are a dozen other schemes
too...

- Andy


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