Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-04 Thread Bob Gustafson
On 05/03/2016 08:02 PM, John Ralls wrote: On May 3, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Don Ireland wrote: I’ve been using gnuCash for the past 3-4 days and really like what I’ve seen so far. I’ve read that the dev team is planning to rewrite the code. Might I suggest breaking it

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread John Ralls
> On May 3, 2016, at 9:16 PM, Don Ireland wrote: > > John, > > Thanks for the follow up. > > "You seem to be a bit confused about task separations, though." > > What I was suggesting is that the GUI would display the existing records and > provide a way for the

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread Don Ireland
John, Thanks for the follow up. "You seem to be a bit confused about task separations, though." What I was suggesting is that the GUI would display the existing records and provide a way for the user to tell the server to create new records via API calls. Other than that, all processing

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread John Ralls
> On May 3, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Don Ireland wrote: > > I’ve been using gnuCash for the past 3-4 days and really like what I’ve seen > so far. I’ve read that the dev team is planning to rewrite the code. > > Might I suggest breaking it into a server (with an API) and a

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread david . carlson . 417
. David C Sent from my LG G Pad 7.0 LTE, an AT 4G LTE tablet -- Original message--From: Bob GustafsonDate: Tue, May 3, 2016 2:36 PMTo: Don Ireland;Cc: gnuCash Developer List;Subject:Re: Server/Client? Sounds like a progressive idea.A very similar approach which would be easier and more

Re: Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread Bob Gustafson
Sounds like a progressive idea. A very similar approach which would be easier and more ‘main stream’ is to use a browser as the GUI. There are a number of frameworks which can be used to write the server such as RubyOnRails, Django, etc. These frameworks use MySql, Postgresql, SQLite in a

Server/Client?

2016-05-03 Thread Don Ireland
I’ve been using gnuCash for the past 3-4 days and really like what I’ve seen so far. I’ve read that the dev team is planning to rewrite the code. Might I suggest breaking it into a server (with an API) and a client (providing the GUI)? This would allow for the GUI to be used on any multitude