RFC: Move business-core objects (back) into engine, including their serialization

[Thomas Troesch]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:
>
> > On Saturday 27 March 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> >> For this reason I propose to move all code from business-core/ into
> >>  engine/, the code from business-core/xml/ into backend/xml, and from
> >>  business-core/sql into backend/sql. This will get us back to the point
> >>  where each single level of abstraction is also located in one single
> >>  location in our source code.
> >>
> >> I don't think moving this code "upstream" inside our tree might cause
> any
> >> major problems, because any "downstream" dependencies will implicitly
> >>  continue to be fulfilled before and after the move.
>
> I'll respond to the original email in a bit.. It's a lot to take in and
> I've got a lot of work and travel going on (trying to get my house ready
> to put on the market).  So I appologize for taking a long time to respond.
>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2010-March/027718.html
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> >>
> > I am all for merging the business core objects into the engine. IMO this
> will
> > make it easier to improve the integration of the business functions in
> the
> > rest of GnuCash. It will also avoid having to fix things in two places
> (like
> > the Japanese support in the register code, for example).
>
> Note that merging in business-core will NOT affect the necessity of
> business-ledger.  So this merge will NOT prevent you from fixing
> Japanese support in multiple places.
>
> > So, +1 as far as I'm concerned.
> >
> > Geert
>
> -derek
>
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What is the status of this.  I would like to use addresses for check
writing.

Thomas