Default save-as file format: Rather stick to XML?

[John Ralls]

On Nov 8, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote:

>
> Another possibility is simply in the packaging.  The Save As dialog  
> will only
> present options for which a libdbi dbd driver is available.  For  
> linux (and I
> assume for mac), the user needs to install specific dbd drivers.  By  
> default, I
> think they are not installed, so that XML is the only option which  
> will be
> available.  On win32, we provide all dbd drivers in the setup.exe  
> file.
> Perhaps we should not include them, but should make them available  
> in a
> separate gnucash-dbd-setup.exe file.  Then, again, only XML would be  
> available
> unless the user downloaded and ran gnucash-dbd-setup.exe.

I bundled the OSX binary of 2.3.7 with the Sqlite3 dbi driver (Sqlite3  
is included in OSX; it's used for the SQL backend to CoreData) and  
with WebKit, figuring that OSX folks would want to test out the "way  
of the future". If that's not the future for 2.4, then I'll do 2.3.8  
without DBI and with GtkHTML.

Regards,
John Ralls