Customer vs Company

[plussier at mindspring.com]

In a message dated: 03 Apr 2003 11:44:33 EST
Derek Atkins said:

>Feel free to submit patches..  Right now, it would be rather
>challenging (IMHO).  But I don't understand LDAP.

What about it is challenging?  Rewriting the existing mechanism by 
which Gnucash stores address information, or getting it to query an 
LDAP server?

The query part shouldn't be too difficult.  Rewriting the address 
storage mechanism might be hairy, since you then need to provide 
options for people so they can choose to use LDAP or not.

I merely see LDAP as a convenient mechanism to share directory
information with other LDAP aware applications.  It by no means
should be a requirement for using GnuCash, especially since most
GnuCash users seem to be individuals, and LDAP is more a feature
I expect would  only be interesting to small companies which
already use LDAP for other things.

Where in the code is the customer address stuff?  I don't know the 
first thing about scheme, and won't even pretend to be able to 
contribute code, but I wouldn't mind mucking around with this a 
little to see what I can learn/come up with.
( I might be able to contribute something in perl :)


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