It's been rumoured that Geoff Hutchison said:
>
> > 'joe average' user struggles mightly and usually fails. Since gnucash
> > is supposed to be something your grandma is supposed to be able to use
> > we can't burden it with excessive (viz, zero) install/config weight.
>
> Fair enough, but I was bringing this up as something you can do now. I
> don't quite understand why you've had problems with wrappers--I've seen
> (and made) some that work fine for "joe average," but that's beside the
> point.
Ah, just the pain of bleeding edge software. Gnucash has at times had
dependencies on eperl, swig, xmhtml, xbae, guile, slib, scheme, nana,
gnome-print, g-wrap, etc. *none* of these ship with the major
distributions. Many don't have rpm's or debs, or, if they do,
might have rpms for mandrake but not redhat, or v.v. Sometimes, we've
needed the latest version of slib or guile, and older, widely-available
versions wouldn't do. This always made gnucash very difficult
to install, and turned off a lot of people and actually made enemies.
Sigh. Last thing I need is a re-run with htdig/mifluz ...
... but I do want to let the user search my documentation.
Sigh.
> If you want a library for embedded use, you may wish to take a look at
> Loic's mifluz project--a repackaging of the word database of ht://Dig. It
> doesn't offer document parsing or fuzzy matching or templates, but it is
> packaged to be embedded.
thanks, good reference.
> While 3.2 will compile for shared libraries, I don't think it will yet be
> embeddable (if that's really a word). It will be closer since htsearch
> will be much more modular. But that is not currently the main thrust of
> the project. If someone would like to contribute code to that direction,
> it would be appreciated. If development for other things (such as the
> modular htsearch that I mentioned) makes the code easier to use in your
> context then everyone benefits.
I'll think about it. I'll see if I can convince someone to work on
this.
--linas
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