Gnucash/AqBanking Packaging

[Mike Alexander]

--On September 20, 2012 9:19:25 AM -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> 
wrote:

> Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:
>
>>> How about JavaScript? We're already bundling Webkit-Gtk, and that
>>> includes a JavaScript interpreter and all of the web paraphernalia.
>>> It shouldn't be too hard to write a C routine to exec a JavaScript
>>> program and retrieve the result.
>>
>> The language it's written in is not the issue.  Maintaining the price
>> quote software is a big job because the various web sites it scrapes
>> for prices keep changing.  Rewriting it in Python, Javascript, or
>> anything else won't help that.
>
> No, but if *we* maintain it ourselves the we wouldn't be depending on
> a third party to keep it up to date -- we could just push an update.
> And even better, if it WERE Javascript we could even theoretically
> host a copy on www.gnucash.org!  That would let us update the grabber
> code for everyone is near-real-time!

Right, all I was trying to say is that we're signing up for a lot of 
work if we take this on.

          Mike