I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction."
After a while, especially with a busy set of accounts, this can amount
to thousands (or in the case of a business, even millions) of
transactions. It just doesn't scale very well.
Perhaps you could have a dbm per account? Or, better yet, use an SQL
backend with transaction support... Seriously, if you're going to
want to get real multi-user (which implies multi-platform) support,
you're going to want a centralized database. An SQL database is
probably one of the best ways to accomplish this. I'd recommend MySQL
or PostgreSQL (the latter even comes installed with RH 6.x).
-derek
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:25:48 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > >>>>> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:46:52 -0600, Christopher Browne
> > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > Christopher> d) The other thing that would logically go along with
> > Christopher> this would be to have some sort of "transaction lock"
> > Christopher> scheme which would forbid two windows from modifying the
> > Christopher> same transaction at the same time.
> >
> > why? whatever one was committed last would take precedence, no?
>
> One of the goals is to allow GnuCash to support having multiple users
> working on things at once.
>
> And it's not acceptable to assume that they *know* they're trampling
> on one another; it is better to tell at least one of them that they're
> "trampling" and indicate that this isn't being permitted.
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