gnucash-perl

[Derek Atkins]

Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
> > A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) there existed a set of
> > PERL bindings to the gnucash engine.  Using swig, one could compile
> > the bindings and write perl apps directly.  Through the course of time
> > (and lack of a maintainer) these perl bindings fell into disrepair...
> >
> 
> Oh, I see.  My idea is something *much* less ambitious, read-only
> access to the data.  Should be fairly trivial to keep current, since
> the data file is in XML and I'm trying to write the perl module
> assuming no prior knowledge of the data structure (not totally
> possible, but close).
> 
> I'll post when I have some working code.

Well, keep in mind that the long-term plan is to move away from XML
as the data file format, so honestly your time is better spent trying
to resurrect the swig bindings if you really want/need PERL bindings.
Or perhaps you can figure out how to do what you want using guile?

-derek
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