GnuCash GUIDs vs. RFC 4122 UUIDs

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:17:50 +1300 Kevin Buckley <kevin.m.buckley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> >Â I wish GnuCash would lean on the database a little more to guarantee
> > integrity, such as by using FOREIGN KEY and other constraints, but I
> > understand that as long as the XML backend is also supported, such integrity
> > must (also) be maintained at the application level.
> 
> That "as long as" in there.
> 
> Hopefully, a non-database backend storage format will always be maintained
> "as long as" there's a GnuCash.
> 
> I have always found GnuCash to be pretty good at "doing the right thing" when I
> start coddling the XML directly and get it wrong.
> 
> Long may GnuCash continue to do so without the need for having to build/install
> against a database layer.

What would make sense would be a 'public' API that would allow for
third-party back-end code.  This API library would include ALL of the
'magic' that GnuCash uses to maintain data integrity.


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