[GNC-dev] How to contribute to GnuCash?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

There are some stats on code.gnucash.org, at least in terms of HTTP(S)
access, which would include wiki and email/irc logs.  However, those
statistics are not available to the public (and I can't get to them from
where I am currently sitting).

-derek

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> I don't have most of that info. We don't have any analytics on the
> website. SourceForge reports a pretty consistent ~1000 downloads per
> week with spikes to ~5000 right after releases, mostly for
> Windows. We've had a further 1400 downloads from Github since the
> release at the end of March. We have no visibility of installs from
> Linux or BSD package managers.
>
> GnuCash for Android has had 809 downloads from Github since the last
> release in June 2018, but most GfA installs will be from the Play
> Store and you'd have to ask Ngewi about that, I don't have access to
> that information.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>> On May 4, 2019, at 5:44 PM, John <john at vicinno.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the details. That will help a lot. Before jumping into
>> the code, we still have some questions about the project popularity,
>> can you guys share some info about gnucahs.org homepage user traffic
>> like daily access or monthly access number? also what is android app
>> total download number so far, and the number for daily download,
>> daily or monthly active users? hope you guys don't mind we ask these
>> info.
>> 
>> Best,
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 1:56 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> Guile is a Scheme interpreter built into GnuCash, see
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/. You don't need to worry about
>> it.
>> 
>> You should start by looking at Ngewi's GfA code at
>> https://github.com/codinguser/gnucash-android to get an idea of how
>> he handled it.
>> 
>> If you want to use GnuCash code directly in your app you need to
>> figure out what the app is going to do, what accounting objects
>> you'll create, and how you want to instantiate them, then look at
>> the corresponding accounting objects in
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/libgnucash/engine. Those objects
>> are loaded from storage, either XML or SQL, with
>> https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/libgnucash/backend.
>> 
>> There's some API documentation at https://code.gnucash.org/docs/MAINT.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> > On Apr 30, 2019, at 11:00 AM, John <john at vicinno.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Thanks for all the info. We are new to Gnucash code. what is
>> > guile? how to set up the engine code? what exact source code files
>> > should we start to look at for this iOS companion app? how to
>> > quickly understand the code?
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > John
>> > 
>> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 7:29 AM 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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