gnucash and Mac OS X 10.4

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting "Kevin T. Broderick" <kbroderick at smcvt.edu>:

> (With that said, having things start up quickly is nice, too, and I'd  
> obviously be interested in other ideas to speed up the process.)

Fix gnucash's half-done modularization effort.  Instead of "gnucash" being a
guile script, "gnucash" should be a C Application that loads a limited set of
shared-object modules.  The modularlization effort, while nice in theory for
each core bit of functionality to be individually usable as both shared
libraries and modules, is flawed in execution.  I suspect that the slowness is
due to a poor interaction between gnucash's confusion on the difference between
shared library, shared object, and module, and MacOS's runtime linker.

Changing gnucash to use fewer runtime _modules_ would go a long way towards
stabilizing the system, IMHO.

Similarly, clearing up the line between what's a library and what's a module
would ALSO be useful.

Further discussion should probably proceed on -devel.

-derek

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