reporting, again aka python for people (was: History Quotes)

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sunday, November 15, 2015, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
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> > Ugly indeed and pointless as well. We’re not going to change our policy that the only supported way to modify the GnuCash database, whether SQL or XML, is through the GnuCash API and using that API gives the external program the ability to read and write either XML or SQL.
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> Given this policy and the long term target to move to an SQL based storage, would it make sense to drop the XML support from GnuCash ? Or is there some benefits from keeping it (easier manual inspection of data ? Backward compatibility ? ...).

We’ll keep it for backward compatibility. SQL will be the default.

Regards,
John Ralls