On Jun 13, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
Would that be adequate, or do we really want to reimplement and
maintain all
the output format complexity in our own code, in C?
I think the point is that we should provide a native implementation
because not everyone is crazy enough to use perl (blatant jab ;)).
I would never expect a customer to write a perl or python script
just to get their data in what is widely considered a standard
business format that can be imported by their userland application.
That wasn't what I was discussing, on two levels. Firstly, I wasn't
suggesting that the end user write anything, secondly I was talking
about the other output formats discussed (Excel, HTML...) rather than
just CSV.
The people on the hackers list, are NOT the target for this
feature. The people on general, admin and novice are.
I was referring to the other export formats mentioned (Excel,
HTML...). We already support CSV export of single tables with the
bundled software, don't we?
Cheers,
Steve
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