I've been looking at the import code and documentation and I'm wondering what the overall plan and path is. It looks like there is a "generic" implementation in the top level directory which has utilities that are being converted to C++. I can see the importers making some calls into this. What is the plan and where are we at?
In particular, what needs to happen with QIF, which is still written in guile? I'm asking because I'm looking for a task to work on. My particular passion is writing C++ classes to replace legacy code along with adding tests and documentation. I've been reading over the source code and following the development list for several months, but I've had limited bandwidth until recently to make contributions. I've been looking at converting Import/QIF to C++ because it is written in guile (higher priority than converting the C code in my opinion), is fairly self contained, and the only alternative guile conversion code is reports, which is way too large in scope for where I am. Converting QIF has drawbacks such as needing extensive testing, and having limited existing tests for regression testing, however. My current thought is to directly translate the existing algorithms and not use the generic import to minimize introducing bugs, but others have probably put more thought into how to handle this. So I'm looking for some direction either on what the end goal is and how to achieve it, or direction to leave QIF alone for now and work on some other area of the codebase (suggestions welcome). _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
