Books, sessions [was: Re: UI independance]

[Linas Vepstas]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:32:40PM -0500, Matthew Vanecek was heard to remark:
> On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:42, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >  how does that relate to a GNCSession?

A 'session' is supposed to have the same meaning that it does in 
communications stacks: It holds the info about how an application 
(gnucash) is connecting to a data store (file/sql-db).  A session 
is created when the app first connects to the data store, and the 
session is deleted when the user 'hangs up the phone'.   A session 
does not having any direct accounting meaning on its own; it's ephemeral
to the, umm, session. 

At this point, the core engine does not have any concept of 'a collection
of books', I don't know if it should or not, nor what that concept should
be.

--linas

BTW, search gooogle for the words 'ontology' and 'accounting'.  I beleive
you will get hits about concepts like 'book' and 'transaction', which have
common, well understood accounting meanings, but surprisingly little formal
agreeement about what these things really are in a deep sense.


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