Strategy

[Christian Stimming]

Am Samstag, 3. Dezember 2011, 16:40:07 schrieb Donald Allen:
> I've been watching with interest the messages flying by from various
> people that confirm the impression (from just trying to build it) that
> Gnucash has become a gigantic hairball. John Ralls has been saying a
> number of things that sound smart (I'll tell you later where to send
> the check, John) about design errors, problems in the data model,
> etc., and has embarked upon a re-design. Christian has taken a similar
> step back with Cutecash. Then there's the whole issue of the use of
> Scheme. Much as I love the elegance of the language, I doubt that its
> use is appropriate here, for all the reasons that we've discussed ad
> nauseum.
> 
> So I'd like to suggest that perhaps none of the proposed ways-forward
> are radical enough. 

Thanks for the thoughts about the current project progress as observed from 
reading here. From my point of view there isn't any immediate need for a more 
radical way of moving forward. Instead, there have been identified several 
ways of incrementally introducing more modern programming tools / models / 
languages, and using those for improving the user experience. After all, the 
main goal of the project is a software that will do what the users want (even 
though the actual target user group is still up to debate). That is, the main 
goal is *not* to use the hottest programming languages of choice, or something 
similar. It's what the users get to see that counts. From that point of view, 
the internal changes aren't as important. And in my opinion this is enough 
reason to keep the internal changes incremental, which is very well possible.

Regards,

Christian