Introduction for GSOC Project

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Nikhil,

thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. 
As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN 
and build it yourself (on some Linux/Unix computer), see 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building

If you're interested in python scripting, I would suggest two things: 

* First, you should read through the example scripts in src/optional/python-
bindings/example_scripts and run those as, well, examples. 

* Secondly, you can check out the brand new SVN (r20472 or higher), then 
modify the file src/python/init.py in the end to say "if True:", then play 
around with the python console that opens upon next gnucash start (if your 
python path includes $prefix/lib/python). From my understanding, every action 
that you can invoke from that console should also be easy to add as a menu 
item anywhere inside gnucash. Feel free to come up with interesting ideas that 
can easily be added through python, but might have been very difficult in non-
python before. Examples that come to mind are: Import from or export to 
various file formats, e.g. http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-
request/suggestions/1470567-import-export-client-supplier-details?ref=title or 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637004

Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page are useful suggestions for a 
project.

Best Regards,

Christian

Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011 schrieb nikhil gupta:
> Hello,
> I am Nikhil Gupta 3rd year student pursuing my B-Tech in Computer Science
> field in IIIT Hydearbad,India.
> I came across the projects  offered by our organization in gsoc 2011.I am
> interested in the  "Python reporting and scripting engine" project .
> I have done many projects in C(on linux) and in the python also.
> Can U tell me how should I move ahead in this procedure.
> 
> Thnx
> Nikhil