Christian Stimming writes:
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> Hi there,
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> First of all: Why did the mailing list search feature disappear from
> gnucash.org? I had to look through the whole Internet to find a searchable
> archive at mail-archive.com :-)
This is probably another glitch that happened with the recent
website maintenance.
> I was wondering what our future plans of guppi integration are. Right now
> we have the libguppitank interface to guppi, but it supports only a small
> subset of Guppi's features. In a short irc chat today with Jon Trowbridge
> he said that e.g. linegraphs and pricebars are working fairly well inside
> Guppi. To use them via libguppitank one would 'only' need to write the
> libguppitank wrappers which should be fairly straightforward.
>
> But I started to think about why we are actually using libguppitank. This
> interface is another layer between the guppi features and gnucash. That
> means it is an additional layer of code that has to be maintained in the
> long run. What would be different if we use bonobo to interface to guppi?
> Could it be that the "additional interface layer" is handled automatically
> by CORBA, so that there's no additional code that has to be maintained?
>
> And, by the way, what were the reasons for not using bonobo but instead
> creating a new API? The mailing list doesn't have any discussion on that,
> so I guess it was an internal gnumatic discussion -- does somebody recall
> some of the arguments?
Bill Gribble will know more, but as I recall the libguppitank interface
was already in existance when we decided to use guppi. I don't think it
was created just for gnucash, but I'm not sure if any other apps use it.
Basically, I think we chose it because it was really simple to use,
there really wasn't a lot of discussion.
If using the main interface would give us enough good features then
I don't see why we couldn't do that in the next development cycle.
dave
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