[GNC-dev] How to contribute to GnuCash?

[John Ralls]

Right, engine-interface.scm is one of several files of helper code to make it easier or more idiomatic to write scheme code using the engine. They're not in the path if one uses the engine API from Scheme. Contrast that with using an options dialog from C: That goes through the Scheme options code in app-utils to be written to the book's slots via kvp-scm.cpp.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Apr 27, 2019, at 7:53 AM, Christopher Lam <christopher.lck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've managed to enter some guile code from the register: "Transaction >
> Copy Transaction" will copy the current transaction into an scm object via
> functions in engine-interface.scm, called from split-register.c, and I
> presume this scm object is read back to paste later on. Ditto Transaction >
> Duplicate Transaction.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 at 14:29, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
> 
>> Op zaterdag 27 april 2019 16:05:42 CEST schreef John Ralls:
>>>> On Apr 26, 2019, at 10:55 PM, Geert Janssens <
>> geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
>>>> wrote:>
>>>> Op zaterdag 27 april 2019 01:01:38 CEST schreef John Ralls:
>>>>> What Geert meant is that our current engine code *isn't* particularly
>>>>> portable, though I think that since it compiles OK on MacOS it
>> shouldn't
>>>>> have too much trouble with iOS either. It's a mix of C and C++ and the
>>>>> main
>>>>> dependencies are Boost and Gnome Glib; the XML file backend also
>> depends
>>>>> on
>>>>> libxml2 and the SQL backend depends on libdbi.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The public mirror for our git repository is at
>>>>> https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash. Note that the stable branch is
>>>>> "maint".
>>>>> Doxygen API docs are at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> John Ralls
>>>> 
>>>> The devil is in the details... The engine code currently still depends
>> on
>>>> guile as well, which is a scripting language. Doesn't Apple impose
>>>> restrictions on that ?
>>>> I currently don't have a full overview of where guile is used in the
>>>> engine
>>>> code. I know the option system is heavily dependent on it, but that's
>>>> primarily used by the report system.
>>> 
>>> There's no guile in the backends, and only a little in engine, core
>> utils,
>>> and gnc-module for facilitating the wrappers. App-utils is heavy with
>>> scheme but that's to support application features like options and the
>>> financial functions for scheduled transactions, and price-quote is
>> scheme.
>>> I think John's team can set up a build of just engine and the backends
>> they
>>> want to support without swigging and so without guile. That should be
>>> enough for a companion project similar to GfA.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>> 
>> I'm glad to hear that. I have a vague recollection of tracing some
>> transaction
>> code in the past and ending up in guile. That may have been cleaned up by
>> now.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Geert
>> 
>> 
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