recovery

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:02:28AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> hendrik at topoi.pooq.com writes:
> 
> > So I still use hand-coded C++ to read the gnucash file.
> 
> Why?  Why not just link against libgncengine and load the
> gnc-backend-file into your code?  We already have an API that you can
> use to read GnuCash data files.  Moreover, using the GnuCash API means
> you'll not "break" when the data file changes format!

I wrote the thing years ago and just make patshes from year to year as 
our requirements change.  I hadn't heard of the API.  Wher can I fint 
the details?

And is it sufficiently versioned that it will still be able to read old 
gnucash files when the format changes?

-- hendrik