On 24/12/2017 16:34, Geert Janssens wrote: [snips below, hopefully context maintained]
1. Use of namespaces.
For 2.8 I have been working on converting parts of the CSV importer to C++. And considering the class structure that is slowly forming there (still in flux as conversion of additional importers reveals design limitations that shouldn't be there) I am even tempted to use nested namespaces there (not nested classes, mind you) like
On the other hand I don't have much experience with namespaces yet (other than using st:: and boost:: which have nested namespaces as well) so I don't know the pro's and con's of it. So I'm interested in opinions about this.
I'm not sure what most people consider CSV accounting data is useful to begin with, although I also know it can't be ignored entirely.
The ever-improvement of the csv import is a project that will always fail, it happens every time someone exports a csv file from their accounting program / spreadsheet and the gnc import doesn't say "hooray, I love your format, we bow to your format". I suggest a presumed import format of ledger-cli type data and levering the work of shared open source accounting data. Writing a script to get from a csv into ledger-cli is transparent, portable and useful to a broad community.
It also means only one significant import / transfer format for gnc and related software to concentrate on <-- very good thing.
2. Versioning.
The migration to gtk2 has been a long time ago and the software world has evolved since then. Release cycles in general have shortened. Incremental changes are usually preferred over big bang changes. So I think our numbering scheme is in for a modernization.
gnc's versioning does seem dated although I expect people that read the dev list may be used to them by now.
As someone less involved in gnc coding but with a lot of interest in data I'd have thought the next non-backward compatible format change would be the next gigantic.
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