Newbie: Data import question
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 8 11:41:02 EDT 2009
David Goodenough <david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk> writes:
>> Now, you COULD work on fixing the QSF importer before it gets ripped out
>> for lack of love.....
>
> That is something I could look at. Where do I start looking for it (in the
> 2.3.1 source) and how do I enable it?
The code is in src/libqof/backend/file
As for enabling it.... I think it just needs to get loaded, but I'm not
100% sure.
> My C is a bit rusty (I am normally a Java coder), but I am happy to give it
> a go. What kind of love does it require? Are there known bugs, or are the
> problems more basic than that?
The problems are more basic -- it's extremely fragile, memory leaks,
memory corruption... It just doesn't work. It needs a lot of love.
It was completely unstable and could crash a lot, too.
There are probably a bunch of QSF bugs in bugzilla..
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-derek
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