questions about plugging a palm conduit into Gnucash

[Philip Lowman]

Over the last several months I've become something of a devoted Gnucash 
user so much so that I'm tracking cash expenditures including Sales Tax 
these days[!].

Anyways, I am getting sick of asking for a receipt for every cash 
purchase I make and I'd like to write a palm application which allows me 
to enter new transactions into an Account which are then synchronized 
with Gnucash when I Hotsync.  I'm fairly certain I can write the Palm 
app to facilitate this however I'm not too certain about the glue 
between Gnucash and the Palm databases.

I have investigated OFX and rejected the idea of constructing OFX from 
the handheld data because it doesn't handle splits (which I would like 
to support in the application).  I am just wondering if Gnucash has any 
kind of consistent plugin interface which will never change?  I am 
considering interfacing with the core gnucash libraries by writing my 
own code which calls the Gnucash libraries to add transactions and so 
forth since it seems the easiest way to do this.  I guess I'm just 
worried about having to make changes and recompile my app when things 
are changed in Gnucash itself between releases.

Also some pointers would be helpful.  Essentially I want my conduit to 
open a gnucash file and simply add transactions and splits to it and 
close the file.  Are there any problems or pitfalls that anyone can 
think of in doing this?

-- 
Philip Lowman