How modular is GNUCash?

[Fred]

I would love to see a) happens.

Would someone be interested in working on the RPC front-end for the Gnucash 
engine?

I also bought a Zaurus, and I was thinking of Gnucash on the Zaurus as well, 
but I don't think the KDE port will help for the multi-platform. As far as I 
know, KDE doesn't work on MS Windows, even if Qt is fully multi-platform.
I believe the way to go is with a client/server using RPC.
Unfortunatly, I have no knowledge of the Gnucash engine, so I would have a 
hard time working on a RPC front-end for the engine (furthermore, never used 
RPC before, but this doesn't scare me).

To go back on the Zaurus, I have some thoughts somewhere in my notepad, we can 
talk about it if you're interested in starting such a project.

Fred.


On Sunday 16 March 2003 05:38 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > I just purchased a Zaurus (Linux based) PDA which uses Qt as it's base
> > GUI library (as does KDE I believe).  I would love to use GnuCash on
> > this device, but more importantly, I would like to be able to allow my
> > family members to use GnuCash and they are stuck with MS windows for the
> > foreseeable future.
> >
> > It would seem that a port to KDE (Qt) would be one way of solving both
> > these issues with one move.
> >
> > Q) Seeing Qt as one way to solve the portability issue, has anyone
> > looked at using the Mozilla framework (XUL)?
>
> Any of these options would represent a /massive/ amount of effort
> involving a total rewrite of the front end.
>
> There are two ways that this would make sense:
>
>   a) Update the RPC back end and create a KDE application using RPC.
>
>      I don't think there's any common RPC scheme between GNOME and KDE,
>      what with KDE having rejected CORBA, so this probably involves
>      creating an RPC framework for KDE in addition to writing a front
>      end.
>
>   b) Write a new application that behaves as a front end, using the
>      PostgreSQL back end.
>
>      All the pieces are there to allow it, but I think this would
>      mandate pushing more of the "engine" into PostgreSQL.  (Adding in
>      triggers, stored procedures, and such...)  Not necessarily a bad
>      thing...
>
> I wouldn't see XUL being /anything/ of an answer; that is an application
> platform that frankly scares me, at least vis-a-vis taking it seriously
> as a platform for important applications.
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