GnuCash GUIDs vs. RFC 4122 UUIDs

[Derek Atkins]

Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:

> At Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:14:03 -0500 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> Said API is called "The GnuCash Engine" and it already exists.
>
> Is it available as a shared library of some sort?  That is, is it
> possible to either links C/C++ code OR build a SWIG interface against
> (so some random SWIG-support scripting language)?  It would be cool if
> that was the case...

Of course it's the case.  And we already do that!  We have Guile
(scheme) wrappers for most of the APIs, and there's a project to create
Python wrappers, too!  However we do NOT provide a .pc file; it's not
easy to write a C/C++ app that links against the gnucash engine libraries.

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>> -derek

-derek
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