gnucash and user management system

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>
>Personally I think it would be really cool to have such a system, though
>that would imply the ability for many users to modify the same file at the
>same time. This would involve much more changes than I can do, so I'll just
>be quiet again ;)
>
>Nathan
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>
Concurrent processing considerations. That would be requiring data locks 
and/or a full blown data base manager. Far outside the scope of a 
project like this (or at least the dbm would be, data locks that 
restricted access to "one at a time" but allowed multiple users to 
access the data at different times not as difficult). I'll have to be 
blunt here. "Users" are just not going to understand the difficulties 
involved in the implementation of a multiple (concurrent) user database.

Normally the dbm would NOT be part of (not restricted to the use of) 
just one application. I am not "up" on what projects might be around in 
the "free software" world  for dbm development (and then an application 
would be rewritten to USE that dbm  controlling access to  the 
application's  data which would be kept  in a database under control of 
that dbm).


Michael