Development primer?
Christian Stimming
christian at cstimming.de
Sat May 11 16:18:29 EDT 2013
Am Samstag, 11. Mai 2013, 00:24:22 schrieb Allen S. Rout:
> When I shrugged, and just ran make, and then ran src/bin/gnucash, I got:
>
> Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
>
> which was a new one for me.
>
> I infer that I'm building somewhere not well prepared to be a gnucash
> build, but I may just be clueless. Anyone got a bat?
Did you also run "make install" (after specifying some local ./configure --
prefix)? Maybe this might happen as long as gnucash isn't installed.
> The itch I'm wanting to scratch is the ability to direct the generation
> of a series of reports; there's an older question on the list about
> making reports for all N of the customers, and I'm in just that
> situation for billing the members of our local hackerspace.
>
> Best off, I'd like to extend the reach of the Python API (which we're
> already using for many things; thanks!) so that it can trigger report
> generation. but other command-line-invocation solutions would be fine too.
Great. Certainly we can include any additions on the python front here.
> Additionally, I want to be able to express from my python such desires as:
>
> Enumerate for me the active customers (or customer numbers, or...)..
> Right now I'm checking customers zero to 10,000 for
>
> if (customer == None):
>
> .. works, but ick.
>
> and "What's the largest invoice?", and probably other similar queries.
Also very valid questions to ask in python.
Regards,
Christian
More information about the gnucash-devel
mailing list