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On 11/16/05, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Welcome to the release of Ruport 0.2.5:
> The "I'm releasing too often" edition.
>
> What is Ruport?
> --------------------------------
>
> Right now, Ruport is alpha software, but it is already useful.  It is
> both a report generation and formatting framework AND a reporting
> library that aims to make talking to database FOO and
> outputting in format BAR trivial.   You can even talk to things that
> aren't databases, like CSV files. You have a choice of using the
> ruport application to automate a lot of your work, or using the
> library to implement your own application based on it.  That part is
> up to you.
>
> Ruport currently can take a query and talk to any Database DBI
> supports, and return you a DataSet, which can do neat things, like
> easily output a CSV or an HTML table and even email them trivially.
> This functionality will be expanded greatly in coming releases.
>

Have you seen IBM's Directory Integrator at all?  It's sort of a any
format to any format tool which is quite useful.  It's used a lot to
pull stuff out of a database, save it to a csv, then input it to a
LDAP directory, etc.  It strikes me that this seems as if it could
have a similar scope.  Cool stuff.