gnucash/src/register/ledger-core/split-register-layout.c

[Linas Vepstas]

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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 03:41:34PM -0600, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
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> Update of /home/cvs/cvsroot/gnucash/src/register/ledger-core
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> Modified Files:
> 	gnc-ledger-display.c split-register-layout.c split-register.c=20
> 	split-register.h=20
> Log Message:
> First-pass at A/R and A/P accounts.=20


Long, long ago, I had the plan to move the contents of
split-register-layout.c to a config file.
(Notice the very regular, even, repetitive nature of this file).
I see that it hasn't happened yet ...=20

Is this good?  Is this bad? =20

The reason I wanted to put this in a config file was to make it easy to
configure gnucash to do new things.  In particular, I wanted to be=20
able to add a column to the register, and config it so that the column
value came from some kvp value.

The germans have long yelled at me for this feature, they want to have
some weird ID numbers as a column in the register.  As long as the code
is C, and static/compile-time, its hard to add this feature. =20

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The need to modify the register in this way was *THE MAIN REASON*
why scheme was added as an extension language.  However, I think
we lost sight of this: we wrote lots and lots of scheme code, but
approximately 0% of it is devoted to making gnucash configurable.

(changing the color/width/labels on columns doesn't count as=20
'configuration'.)

--linas


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