Compiling -DWITH_GNUCASH=NO

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 23 March 2018 at 11:59, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Mar 23, 2018, at 8:34 AM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
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> On 23 March 2018 at 00:35, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> wrote:
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> Ideally this would become part of libgnucash in order to make the report
> generation platform independent as well (and hence opening the way to make
> it
> accessible one day on android or osx platforms). This will only be
> possible at
> the cost of moving away from scheme as reporting engine unfortunately as
> that
> would not be portable...
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> lua maybe?  It seems popular and portable.. and it's already on my personal
> education roadmap. :)
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> Apple’s rules for iOS include *no interpreters*. That means no Guile, no
> Python, no Lua, no Ruby, no Javascript.
>

That's a shame.  But doesn't that pretty much rule out having an easily
expandable reporting engine on iOS?


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> BTW, no, lua isn’t particularly popular: https://insights.
> stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology
> https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2018-02-summary.pdf
>
> That shows percentage of all languages, not embedded
scripting/configuration languages.   And speaking from recent personal
experience, lua seems to be gaining in popularity faster than anything else
I've noticed for that purpose.