Scripting

[Christian Stimming]

Am Montag, 14. November 2011 schrieb Hendrik Boom:
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:17:38 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> writes:
> >>>> (3) This library would be the basis for scripting interfaces to
> >>>> gnucash. The API would make the gnucash library itself indifferent to
> >>>> the scripting language being used.  Of course, the API must still be
> >>>> clearly documented, or it will be practically useless.  Documentation
> >>>> in the header files may suffice.
> >>> 
> >>> This is also the case.  The Scheme and Python bindings are based on
> >>> the C APIs by wrapping using SWIG.
> >> 
> >> Good.  By the Scheme bindings do you mean the hooks for the report-
> >> generating guile code?
> > 
> > Amongst others, yes.  The reports use the scheme bindings, but there are
> > more APIs wrapped than just those used by the reports.  For a while back
> > in the 1.x days the gnucash "application" was actually a guile script.
> 
> I suppose then that the paragraphs in  src/scm/startup-design.txt are
> obsolete:
> 
> - gnucash is a hybrid /bin/sh and guile script which first execs
>     gnucash-env on itself to set up the proper environment and then
>     run the rest of the code in the gnucash file as a guile script.
> - from the gnucash script itself, the (gnucash bootstrap) is loaded,
>     and then control transfers to the scheme function, main.

You are correct: Those paragraphs are obsolete. I've removed the complete file 
because of this.

> Is there still a way, other than as a report, to run a scheme script that
> uses gnucash's API?

Sorry, I don't know. For python it has been described a little bit more (in 
the optional/python directory), and that's also what I would suggest to use.

Best Regards,

Christian Stimming