Am Freitag, 2. September 2005 18:19 schrieb Neil Williams: > > Err... can you draw a picture which part depends on which part > > here, and where "Gnucash GUI", "GNC backend", QSF, and QOF all fit into > > that picture? > > The outline picture is here: > http://www.data-freedom.org/explain.html#example > > The only difference is that Programs A and B actually use the same backend > (which makes it kinda hard to draw). A1 == B1 because objects A == objects > B. However, ProgramA != ProgramB. > > PilotQOF calls libqof which provides QSF as no other backend is defined. > > Gnucash GUI calls the gnc file backend and adds the QSF backend. Much as it > has always done. CashUtil does the same.
Okay so far. I'd just like to ask you for some name clarification here: What you call "gnucash backend" used to be called "gnucash XML file module", right? Then please give it a name that makes this clear, because the gnucash code from src/engine (called "gnucash engine") is also totally GUI-independent but from what I understand is not part of what you call "gnucash backend". When gnucash uses libqof as object framework then there is still a lot of non-GUI modules in the remaining gnucash application. You should therefore be quite careful about what you call what. > > In particular, which part depends on which one *at compile > > time*? That is not a problem, but just a bit confusion on my side. > > GnuCash depends on QSF via a dependency on QOF. It also depends on > libcashobjects.la and libgnc-backend-file.la via the new shared package. *Cough* A dependency on libxyz.la by definition is a dependency at runtime, not at compile time. I asked particularly about the dependency at compile time, more precisely: Which package's headers have to be available when compiling the other package? That is the interesting part for the compile time dependency. From what I gathered: The gnucash-file-backend-of-libqof depends on libqof headers; the gnucash-application-with-gui-and-other-stuff depends on libqof headers. Is this correct? Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel