The open source Eclipse BIRT reporting and data visualization project.
This is not the official Eclipse repository!
This repository was originally forked from flugtiger/birt, because at that time that was the only BIRT repo that seemed to work.
As of today (March 2022), it is more or less up-to-date with the official Eclipse repo eclipse/BIRT,
so if you want to compare it at the source level, you should compare
this repo's tup_main branch with the official master branch.
For more information about this repository see our wiki pages
If you are just looking for the official BIRT, don't use this - instead use the official repo
tup_main is what lisa.lims reports are using, with some differences to eclipse/birt.
master is to keep in sync with eclipse/birt and a starting point for other branches aiming at the eclipse/birt master branch.
The new BIRT website contains a lot of useful information. It is in fact a wiki, though not as open as other wikis. The web site still could use a lot of improvement - your help is welcome.
If you just want to start creating reports, you can use a pre-built BIRT version. See the releases page for the all-in-one designer and the POJO runtime.
Binary releases of the official BIRT are available on the Eclipse web site. An official 4.9.0 release is available since 2022-03-16. You can find binary artifacts for each PR on https://github.com/eclipse-birt/birt/actions
Building BIRT has become relatively easy since 2021/2022. Just see eclipse-birt/birt. Wim Jongman also created an excellent video tutorial.
Just remember to replace eclipse-birt/birt with triestram-partner/birt and the master branch with tup_main when configuring GIT.