development contribution (business-..)

[Derek Atkins]

Anthony Juckel <ajuckel at gmail.com> writes:

> I've been feeling this way as well recently.  Time to stop lurking and
> take a look at getting involved.

neat!

> [...snip...]
>> I even have some donated Python code that implements a phrase wheel,
>> but my python is non-existant so I can't convert it to C for use in
>> GnuCash.  If someone (you?) want to see the python code in order to
>> translate the phrase wheel from python to C, I will gladly pass it
>> along.
>
> Is this something that could be implemented in scheme instead?  What
> is the general attitude towards the usage of scheme in GnuCash these
> days?  I remember that GnuCash's use of scheme was one of the original
> hooks that captured my interest, so I'd like to see it continued...

Unfortunately no.  This really needs to be in C.  Scheme has a number
of problems, the biggest being its a PITA to debug.

> In any case, I'd be interested in the python code, and could
> (hopefully) find some time to translate it in the relatively near
> future.

I'll send it privately.  Your C and GTK are up to snuff that you think
you could translate it? (Feel free to answer this privately).

-derek
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