First off, I wanted to congratulate all of you on the state of gnucash as it exists right now.
Thanks.
I am thinking about making gnucash available as a fully native OS/X aqua application, to the extent that this is possible. If gnucash could be made as simple to install and use as other mac apps, this would be a huge benefit for gnucash as well as mac users like myself.
My question to this list is, does this seem practical/feasible?
Did I understand your question correctly: You are asking how feasibly it is to port gnucash to a new GUI toolkit (which happens to be the native Mac OS/X GUI toolkit)?
I really appreciate any thoughts about widening the portability of gnucash, and I really don't want to discourage you too much.
However: Gnucash has roughly 300 000 lines of code. Out of this, roughly 100 000 lines are somewhat related to gnome (wc `find . -name '*.c' |grep gnome`). This means porting gnucash to a new GUI toolkit requires rewriting of one third of gnucash. Given that the current codebase took probably 6-8 man-years to be built (assuming from 1999 up to now a developer group equivalent to 2 full-time developers was working on gnucash), this undertaking will probably require another 1-2 man/person-years...
In other words, as long as you don't have a group of 3-5 developers who start working on such an undertaking, your effort is probably better invested in the existing Fink port or something along similar lines.
Regards
Christian Stimming
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