GC architecture for backends

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:

>> I haven't thought through all of the issues around connections, but I
>> don't think we want to use predefined DSNs.  A user shouldn't have to
>> set up the GC DSN with an external tool in order to use that DSN within
>> gnucash.
>>
>> Phil
>
> At least for an initial implementation, I recommend letting the
> external tools handle DSN setup.  The most general setups
> (i.e. anything other than sqllite) will probably require external
> configuration anyway.  Once it's working, we can worry about
> streamlining setup for the simple cases.

Except for SQLite I don't have a strong opinion about DSN setup.
However, for SQLite I think Gnucash needs to control the whole
interaction and be able to "force" GDA to use SQLite.  We (read: I)
want the SQLite backend to replace the XML-File backend and "become"
the new "File Backend"...

> -chris

-derek

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