E-guile link

[Derek Atkins]

Nah, might as well focus on eguile in the short term.

-derek

"Tracy Brown" <tracy at emedicine.arizona.edu> writes:

> I have no opinion about using scheme or not for anything, but if there are
> folks who want to get rid of it; we can evaluate the use of XSLT as a
> templating engine. I've used it and it's okay but I suspect that eguile is
> much more flexible.
>
> Tracy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnucash-devel-bounces at gnucash.org on behalf of Josh Sled
> Sent: Tue 11/1/2005 7:43 AM
> To: Brian Rose
> Cc: gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: E-guile link
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:16 -0800, Brian Rose wrote:
>> Is Scheme/Guile staying in or going out? Would
>> e-guile be deleted within the year
>> and replaced?
>
> :)  Good question.  In my ideal world, we would remove it entirely and
> find a different, light-weight templating system for the reports ...
> something like Template-Toolkit.  At the same time, my list was my
> opinion only. and a little rushed... others don't have quite the desire
> for scheme-elimination that I do. :)
>
> My major objection to the prevalence of scheme in gnucash is in other
> locations than the reporting.  I could certainly see scheme being
> removed everywhere *but* the templating of the reports via eguile.  As
> well, we could have more than one mechanism for templating reports,
> especially if the bulk of the reports were already in one technology.
>
> I don't think there's a high probability of it being removed w/in a
> year, were it to occur.
>
> ...jsled
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