On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:39 -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Josh Sled wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:53 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > - get rid of scheme, it's dependencies and the startup loop. > > There needs to be some kind of embedded script language. Both > to provide a high level interface to the underlying C code, and so > that the high level code is immune to bugs like buffer overflows and > dangling pointers.
Actually, it's this assertion I challenge. 80% of the codebase right now is in C, and it should be 100%. I don't see a need for any of it to be in a scripting language. I could see SWIG (conditionally) used to provide bindings to the core logic in a number of languages, for external projects to interface against. But think the core code, UI and the official distribution should be simply C. I could even see this change back over time, as a new major component is developed using those bindings. But right now we must focus on simplicity. A notable exception is the reports, which can be more templates-iteration-and-basic-control-flow than embedded-scripting. > Scheme > > What is causing the dependency problems using scheme? - Simply the dependencies themselves (guile, slib, g-wrap) - The natural impedence mismatch between C and Scheme. - The lack of layering we have now, where C and scheme call back and forth freely, and parts of the system are defined primarily in scheme. - Gnucash init is actually a scheme script that loads a bunch of modules and init, but then calls into a normal C/GTK event loop. Which makes it a PITA to debug (the C code is fine, but especially as the calls go back into scheme code...). Also, frankly, it just puts people off. I love scheme, and I think every developer should learn it; it's one of the single most important things in computing, period. And I'd be fine if gnucash was 100% scheme. But this 80/20 thing is distracting and annoying, especially given the real, inherent complexity that gnucash has to deal with. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
