Development primer?

[Christian Stimming]

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