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task #10158: Submission of Gurgle Report Generator

Submitter:  Tim Colles <timc>
Submitted:  Tue 09 Feb 2010 10:08:02 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Tue 09 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Fri 19 Feb 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  karl Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 11 Feb 2010 01:39:13 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Tim -- thanks for submitting gurgle.  I approved the project, it should be fully active within a few hours.

Please add copyright headers to all the non-trivial files, including (for example) Makefile.am.

You may want to update the common support files, such as depcomp, mdate-sh, missing, texinfo.tex, install-sh, INSTALL, etc., from the current versions, which you can get from the gnulib project on savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib).  Gnulib can do much more than that, too, but it's not necessary to dive in deeply; you can just copy those common files if you like.  (Feel free to email me if you want to discuss.)  Also, shouldn't the distribution include config.guess and config.sub?

Thanks again,
Karl

Karl Berry <karl>
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Tue 09 Feb 2010 10:08:02 AM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: Gurgle Report Generator
  • System Name:  gurgle
  • Type: Official GNU software
  • License: GNU General Public License v3 or later





Description:

The GURGLE program reads record and field information from a dBase3+ file, delimited ascii text file or from an SQL query to a RDBMS and produces a report listing. Although the program was originally designed to produce TeX/LaTeX formatted output, plain ascii text, troff, PostScript, HTML, XML, shell scripts or any other kind of ascii based output format can be produced just as easily.

The program is ideal for generating large bodies of text where small parts of that text are substituted with information from a database. So its great for generating mainly static web pages which have small amounts of dynamic content.

The formatting process of is controlled by a definition file which holds the report, page, and record layouts, what fields to display, and where. Other useful functions supported in the definition file include sorting, filtering, and data manipulation of records in the databases.



Tarball URL:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/timc/gurgle/gurgle-1.61.tar.gz


Tim Colles <timc>

 

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