Comments, Observations, and some XML file format questions

[Derek Atkins]

"Michael T. Garrison Stuber" <garrisonstuber@bellsouth.net> writes:

> > Ahh, that's what client-server systems are for.  You have your Gnucash
> > client that connects to your SQL server.  That should work fine for
> > your 56K link ;)
> 
> Have you actually tried this?  I've run the SQL server before (not across a 
> modem), and it was trying to recalculate value after value after value when 
> I went to exit.  Even with the processing being done server-side, I can't 
> imagine that the client would perform well waiting for call after call.  It 
> sounds nice in theory, but I think you would need to have the GNUCash 
> engine on the server side as well if you really wanted decent performance 
> across a 56k modem.  Of course, I could be dead wrong . . .

No, I haven't tried this, actually (my slowest link is a T-1; kind of
hard to test this ;)  _THEORETICALLY_ it should be the case.  There may
be a delay in loading information, but data should be saved to the database
in real-time leaving nothing to do when you exit.

> Personally, I'm still hoping that Bill gets the GUIless GNUCash running. 
> I'd love to be able to use a command line or curses interface across SSH 
> from anywhere in the world.  (Bandwidth?!  Bandwidth!?  We don't need no 
> stinking bandwidth!)

Yea, this would be good, too.  I have nothing against a GUIless
Gnucash.  I'd like to see it, too (I'm all for command-line tools).

> Michael T. Garrison Stuber

-derek

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