Gnucash 1.8.2 first impressions

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sun Apr 13 01:26:48 CDT 2003


linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:42:49PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> > linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
> > 
> > > Nahh, a few dozen lines of code at most; you use kvp to store 'pointers'
> > > between the two objects, by storing thier guids :  
> > 
> > So are you saying that if I change the entry in the PriceDB it
> > should also change the entry in the register?  I'm not convinced
> > that's the right thing to do.
> 
> Actually, I intentionally did *not* say that, to save some electrons.
> But now that you bring it up:  changing the entry in priceDB should either 
> sever the link, or should clone the price.

Sure, that sounds fine..  It was just something to think about.
I implemented the same copy-on-write method in the TaxTable code.

> --linas

-derek

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