On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:32:40PM -0500, Matthew Vanecek was heard to remark: > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:42, Derek Atkins wrote: > > how does that relate to a GNCSession?
A 'session' is supposed to have the same meaning that it does in communications stacks: It holds the info about how an application (gnucash) is connecting to a data store (file/sql-db). A session is created when the app first connects to the data store, and the session is deleted when the user 'hangs up the phone'. A session does not having any direct accounting meaning on its own; it's ephemeral to the, umm, session. At this point, the core engine does not have any concept of 'a collection of books', I don't know if it should or not, nor what that concept should be. --linas BTW, search gooogle for the words 'ontology' and 'accounting'. I beleive you will get hits about concepts like 'book' and 'transaction', which have common, well understood accounting meanings, but surprisingly little formal agreeement about what these things really are in a deep sense. -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
