On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:49:40AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's been rumoured that Pat Spinler said:
> > What functionality would be desirable for a data store ?
> >
> > *) high reliability
> > *) crash recoverable
> > *) high speed
> > *) able to represent account group, account, and transaction
> > information
> > *) (my desire:) fewer files than current scheme
> > *) ability to pull complex reports direct from store
>
> These are all worthwhile goals, and are certainly something I'd encourage
> for a small-business or power-user version of gnucash. But some
> reasonably large fraction of gnucash users are/will be newbies. For them,
> the most important requirements are:
>
> 1) easy install
> 2) easy, preferably zero administration
> 2a) automated backup
> 2b) automated fault detection
> 2c) automated recovery.
>
Can we support multiple data storage methods? We definitely need to
support a zero admin method, as linas suggests.
At the same time, the program should scale well enough to handle the
needs of a (large) company, in which case a more sophisticated storage
format would be a big plus.
If supporting multiple data storage methods is not a problem, why don't
we simply agree to do that? When someone who needs it has the time,
they can implement the SQL part.
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James (Jay) Treacy
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