r20616-20630 (GncOwner)

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> I'm not at all sure that the plugin architecture gets us anything in
> return for the added complexity, though. AFAIK there aren't any
> plugins. The various libraries in Gnucash proper that are dloaded
> instead of being dynamically linked sure doesn't get us anything
> except longer load times and missed optimization opportunities.

Technically the business features were designed to be a plugin.  When I
originally worked on that code a decade ago my idea was that packagers
could build a "gnucash" app and then supply a secondary
"gnucash-business" plugin that would supply all the business code, GUIs,
etc.   Obviously that never happened, but that WAS the original design.

-derek

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