Modules and GnuCash (was: MacIntel trunk build failure)

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting David Hampton <gnucash at love2code.net>:

> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 12:43 -0500, Peter McAlpine wrote:
>
>> And so I pose this question: is GnuCash to have a modular design or
>> not? If yes, then the modules need to be ripped apart and made to use
>> a strict interface. If no, then the GNCModule code should be ripped
>> out and everything should (go back?) to being treated as a library.
>>
>> If the answer is "yes, GnuCash is to have a modular design but there
>> isn't the time for the primary developers to finish its
>> implementation" then please say so.
>
> This is the correct answer to your question.

I agree with David.  Yes, GnuCash should have a modular design, but
none of the primary developers have had the time to actually finish
the implementation started by the previous generation.  We certainly
want modularization for the importers and backends, and arguably I'd
like to see the business code be a module, too.

>> As it is now I am unable to build trunk on my primary computer and
>> would consider resolving this problem to be an interesting exercise.
>
> That would be great.

Agreed!!!

> David

-derek

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