Hi, "Tom Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 8/8/06, Conrad Canterford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >> Unfortunately, that would be an absolutely enormous amount of work (any >> of them). > ... >> Converting to C++ might sound easy, but since you're on the -devel email >> list I'm assuming you know just how much code there is in this program >> (or can find out). Have a look. There's a lot of it. Conversion is not >> going to happen unless the developers are given a really big imperative >> for why that have to. (sorry). > > Actually, converting to C++ is not that bad...I made a count of > gnucash code lines and got about 396,000 lines of *.c. I have a > 13-year-old project with about 150,000 lines of *.cc that was > originally *.c that I converted in one swoop about eight years ago. > Then I gradually converted to new C++ features over time. You don't > have to do everything at once (after the initial conversion which I > would volunteer to do). > > The advantages are many: an international standard (and support) for > common structures like containers and strings, templates, classes, > namespaces, etc. And speed--many articles rebuff the idea that C++ is > slow. I've considered numerous times the value of rewriting GnuCash in C++. But the places where this would be valuable really are the code interfaces. QOF. Searching. Storage. However right now I think we get 95% of the value of C++ by using glib and gobjects. Other than the ability to use std::string, what do you see as the true added value of converting to C++? >> If I remember correctly, gnucash used to have a qt interface - but that >> didn't work when I first changed to gnucash 6 or so years ago. It would > > Still, a cross-platform GUI using one developers like might be a > long-tem project. In the meantime, a command-line version would > satisfy much of my needs (I'm not sure if gnucash has that now). In what way is gtk not cross-platform? It certainly exists on Unix/Linux, Mac, and Windows. I wholeheartedly agree with you that GnuCash should work on Windows, and I completely support your goal to get that working! As Christian has pointed out, the code pretty much compiles on windows right now, but there are some runtime issues. I would encourage you to get that working first, and then I would encourage you to create a windows installer! Please! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel