Gnucash/AqBanking Packaging

[John Ralls]

On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> wrote:

> --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.
> 

I thought that David was volunteering. ;-)

Regards,
John Ralls