Regarding "Call for help"

Michael Rensing mrensing at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Aug 17 15:27:08 CDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:47, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at math.umd.edu> writes:
> 
> > If this is a stupid idea, please don't yell at me.  But would it help if 
> > GnuCash was written in a high-level language like Python or Ruby?
> 
> To what affect?  You would have to re-write several dozen man-years of
> work.  Had python existed 10 years ago the decisions might have been
> different, but it did not exist then.
> 
> > It just occurred to me that those might make it easier to attrack 
> > developers.  I hear that much of GnuCash is implemented in Scheme which 
> > scares people.  No one is scared of Python or Ruby.  And those langauges 
> > facilitate casual hacking.
> > 
> > Good idea? Stupid idea?
> 
> Irrelevant -- It's too late to do anything about it now.

I'm not sure if I'm correct, but I believe that there's a move afoot to
standardize a set of API's for GnuCash. If this is the case, won't that
lead to the current development language being irrelevant?

If that can happen, then the existing code base can be left alone except
for bug fixes and API related improvements, but new developers can add
features by coding a module in any language they want.

Or am I completely out to lunch??
-- 
Michael Rensing




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