Sync with gnome releases

[Derek Atkins]

A decent module system would DEFINITELY be a good thing.  Although
a question remains:  how would the source tree be broken up to support
building different modules?  Would someone have to rebuild the whole
tree just to add another module, or could we separate modules out
into their own packages (source and binary) and build against
some gnucash-development headers/libraries?

-derek

grib@billgribble.com (Bill Gribble) writes:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:10:02PM -0800, Stanley Long wrote:
> > I appreciate modularity, and the freedom that I could substitute a
> > module (or even not have it loaded at all).
> 
> This is a pretty big priority for me right now for several reasons.  I
> expect that the gnucash plugin system I'm working on will appear in
> the 1.7 series (within the next couple of weeks, most likely), and by
> the 1.8 release all of gnucash will be in "plugins" that can be loaded
> or not.  My goal is to make it easy to launch a custom "gnucash" from
> a shell script, CGI, or whatever that loads just enough functionality,
> quickly, to do what you need.  As a side effect this should clear up
> some of the cloud of cruftiness that lingers over the gnucash source
> tree.
> 
> With a decent plugin architecture, it should also be much easier for
> people to contribute "puzzle pieces" of functionality that are
> self-contained, and for people to ignore new features that they don't
> want.  If the Gimp is any example, you'll get a lot of stinkers but
> some jewels, and a lower hacktivation energy for contributors is a
> good thing (IMO).
> 
> b.g.
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