Beyond 2.6

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Sat Feb 9 12:49:12 EST 2013


On 09-02-13 00:12, David Carlson wrote:
> On 2/8/2013 3:03 PM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>> Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2013, 09:51:57 schrieb John Ralls:
>>>>>> Personnaly I'd rather see us move to Qt instead of Gtk3 when that
>>>>>> decision has to be made.
>>>> I did express my interest in Qt before in mails to the list.
>>>>
>>>> But when you also want to switch to C++ and Boost, to me that sounds
>>>> more or less like a complete rewrite of GnuCash. We've had this
>>>> conversation before, and more or less came to the conclusion we don't
>>>> have enough man power to do that.
>>>>
>>>> Unless such rewrite can be done in baby steps, spread over several
>>>> releases, say like one module at the time ? Is such a segmentation
>>>> possible/practical ?
>> No, switching from C/gtk to C++/whatever in minor steps is in general not
>> possible.
>>
>> When talking about gnucash in C++: Please, don't only make your guesses, but
>> also compile the "cutecash" part once. There were already some conclusions as
>> for the possibility of going to C++:
>>
>> The choice of "C++" is not sufficient; additionally, the GUI toolkit must be
>> chosen as well. Qt was mentioned, but gtkmm is possible as well and maybe even
>> wxWidgets.
>>
>> The toolkit choice sets the requirement for the event signaling that is
>> needed. Qt has its own signals; gtkmm has GObject signals wrapped in some C++
>> magic (IIRC). Gnucash/qof has the weird gnucash signals that we hope to get
>> rid of sometime in the future.
>>
>> Trying to mix'n'match the toolkit and signalling frameworks does not work
>> rather well. The cutecash code is Qt but needs to have the signal/slot
>> adapters for our gnucash signals, but they suck. Trying to get Qt widgets
>> receive GObject signals in general should probably be possible, but I haven't
>> found a good implementation last time I checked.
>>
>>> C is mostly a subset of C++, so a lot of the work is just renaming and
>>> fixing headers.
>> As I said: The language itself is not a sufficient choice. Only stating "we
>> want C++" but not choosing a C++ toolkit and signalling framework buys us
>> nothing, because in that case the signals must be written as C function and
>> macro thingies which do not look nice anymore if we're using C++.
>>
>> On the other hand, the code in src/optional/gtkmm/gncmm is already a usable
>> C++ wrapper for the first few business-code classes, using gtkmm and sticking
>> to the gnucash signals, and it works correctly in the cutecash application.
>> This can be used as a basis to do more C++ evaluation.
>>
>> Having said all this, I also have to admit I most probably won't do any work
>> in this direction or in any other direction, as my time budget for gnucash has
>> now gone to zero due to real life work... but the ideas are still there.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian
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> Also please keep in mind your goals regarding database filetypes.
>
> David C
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What exactly do you mean by this ?

Geert


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