Scrollkeeper in Gnucash Docs

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>>> Rather misses the point: Why even build the omf files if there's no
>>> scrollkeeper?
>>
>> I didn't miss the point; that was (indirectly) my question.  You said
>> that scrollkeeper was used during build time to timestamp the files,
>> so
>> I asked if the files can be used without that timestamp.  Another
>> way of
>> looking at that question is can the files be used without
>> scrollkeeper?
>
> Can they? I suppose, if someone wanted to write a different cataloging
> program that also uses them. I haven't yet found any references to
> such a program on the web. Apple and Microsoft help each have their
> own catalogs, neither of which (AFAICT) use omf metadata.

Then I guess we might as well turn it off.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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