New user - Inventory tracking functionality?

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:30:58 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:
> 
> > At Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:37 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> Hey, if some developer came by wanting to implement an inventory system
> >> he (or she) would have MY full support.....
> >
> > What exactly would be invloved?  Are there (low-level?) API docs on how
> > one would do this -- i.e. what hooks are available for such a system? 
> > What language(s) could the code be in? (C/C++, scheme, ???).  Although
> > *I* don't have any partitular need for an inventory system I might be
> > interested in writing such a module.  The only gotcha is that I'm still
> > running CentOS 4 (4.5 at present) and don't want to upgrade to CentOS 5
> > at this time (lots of assorted reasons).  I'm assuming if I do things
> > right and code things in a properly modular way this should not matter.
> 
> Fist you need to come up with a functional design, both in terms of
> the UI and how you'd want it to interact with the rest of the system.
> Then you need to decide which pieces, if any, you can reuse.
> Then you can work on an implementation.

OK, something to think about...

> 
> There are SOME developer docs at http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/ The
> docs aren't complete, but we're working on them as we modify files.  I
> think that the required hooks would very much depend on your answers
> above in terms of how you think it should behave and interact.
> 
> Programming should all be done in C.  You can use glade to design
> any dialogs.
> 
> What version of Gtk is on CentOS4?  You shouldn't need to upgrade
> in order to work on gnucash, but it'll all depend on your version
> of gtk.  And you'll need to pull down goffice.  But if GTK is too
> old (I think we require 2.6?  Maybe 2.8?) then you wont be able to
> build the current gnucash.

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -q gtk2
gtk2-2.4.13-22

> 
> First, I'd see if you can get the current trunk building on your
> system.

OK, I guess I can try that...

> 
> -derek
> 

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