How modular is GNUCash?

[Derek Atkins]

Honestly, I don't know.  I'm not sold on that architecture.  I think
that the engine is by far the smallest piece of Gnucash, and probably
the most portable.  The client side of the RPC Backend was a full
GnuCash implementation -- the RPC was just an extension of the Backend
API.  So, leveraging that doesn't help you.

Adding xml-rpc is, IMHO, the wrong solution.  Passing XML byte-string
objects within an RPC is fine, but that's not the same thing.

So, I would still start by writing a GnuCash UI in Qt/KDE; once that
UI is written we can later decide on a way to improve and separate the
interface between it and the engine (which is what it sounds like you
want to do).  However, I just don't see the value of such a separation
because the engine is so small....

-derek

Fred <fmalabre at yahoo.com> writes:

> This is what I'm looking at.
> I read in the archive some discussions about the rpc back-end.
> I also saw some code in src/experimental/cgi-bin (or something like that).
> 
> I will come up with a proposal of xml-rpc methods, client oriented (as opposed 
> to Gnucash engine oriented).
> I will do that as a define my needs for the KDE front-end.
> 
> Derek, I understand your point. However I believe the extra work required for 
> a rpc back-end worse it for the future, I was also thinking of a console 
> client, a Zaurus client, and maybe a web client. Wouldn't that be cool ?
> 
> Fred.
> 
> On Monday 17 March 2003 03:37 am, no ahora wrote:
> > And what about using something like xml-rpc?
> >
> > I think xml is a good thing.
> >
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