CVS update: gnucash/src/engine

[Linas Vepstas]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:14:26PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> FYI, I'm planning to move the entity table out of the book and into
> the session...

Why?  Gut reaction is that that would be wrong: the 'session' is
supposed to be an ephemeral thing, for hooking up the gnc-engine
to some particular data store.  

In particular, I've tried to design things so that one book could
sit in several sessions, so that e.g. one could implement a copy
command, or mirroring.  Also, I'd always envisioned that if there
was a networked gnucash, then it could work when disconnected, 
and resync backup with the backend when the connection was
re-established (and meanwhile save to a temp file).

If you moved the entity table to session, then you'd loose all 
of your data if a session is torn down .... as currently happens (??)
when you save to a different file than you used to save to ... 


--linas

> > Modified Files:
> > 	gnc-book.h gnc-book-p.h 
> > Log Message:
> > need to expose the entity table

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