g-wrap (was Re: QOF won't link)

[Derek Atkins]

linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:16:23AM +0200, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists was heard to remark:
>> 
>> OTOH, as a complete ignorant, I was able to find my way through gnucash
>> rather quickly and fix/add what I needed, thanks to modularisation I
>> think.
>
> yes, and no, we've tried to make gnucash out of distinct pieces,
> and that's what helped you.  The goal was always to have those, 
> and to have a set of shared libs that implement various functions.
> But the way those distinct pieces were wrapped into scheme-wrapped 
> shared-libs is what didn't work out. 

Exactly!

Granted, I still think we have too many shared libs..  But we need to
get rid of this scheme-wrapped shared-lib crap that someone left us
with.

-derek

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