On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 21:09 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > 1. People want to know why gnucash is still transitioning, three years > after gnome 2 started out. That's the big one.
Lack of developer resources. The person who started the port disappeared after a couple of months. I picked it up and spent all my spare time for a year working on it, until I burned out so completely I took last year off from any programming outside of my day job. (I also sold my house, bought a condo, and moved cross country in that year.) I've been back working on the port again since January, again spending most of my free time on the g2 port. A couple of the other devs have had job/contract changes in this time period that resulting in having little spare time to work on gnucash. You've already heard from most of the active developers. > 2. People are worried that lots of unrelated development is being done in > the gnome-2 branch; that is, that it is delayed not because of the > work of adapting to the new gnome libraries, but because a whole bunch > of other stuff was attempted at the same time. The biggest issue was that the Gnome1 MDI code was deprecated, and that's where the initial developer decided to start the port to gtk2. The new architecture uses a series of plugins, and uses the GtkUIManager code to handle its menu and toolbars. That's caused all sorts of ripple effects for us. Josh mentioned the forced graphing library switch which has also been another big hurdle. Another large set of changes I've worked on is converting our preferences system over from saved scheme language code fragments to using gconf storage and using the recommended instant apply semantics from the old old Cancel/Apply/OK semantics. There have also been a couple of dialogs switched from a deprecated GtkCTree to a GtkTreeModel/GtkTreeView. > 3. People want assurance that gnome-1 won't need to be maintained forever > in Debian. They would feel a lot better if there could be some > plausible statement like "transition is expected to finish by > such-and-such a date". I know such things are impossible, but if > there is *something* that can be said, it would ease a lot of people. I certainly hope it will be within the next six months, but I know we've been saying that for a while. The GNOME2_STATUS file is getting smaller, and starting within the next month I'm planning to try and get the g2 code in good enough shape that I can use it for my own daily finances. The only obstacle I see at this point is fixing the completion code and the account selection completion/popup in the register. (That's not to say that there won't be any issues left, but it will be a big step forward to be able to use the g2 code for real data.) > Again, these aren't my questions; they are those that the Debian gnome > people are raising, because they urgently want to drop gnome 1 from > Debian. I agree that this is an important goal, No argument here. David _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
