recovery

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting 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?

In the GnuCash sources.  Docs are online at http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD

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

If GnuCash can read the datafile still, then using these libraries
will let you read it.

> -- hendrik

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-derek

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