I played around last night with how reports are loaded in the system. I
basically replaced:
(use-module (gnucash report report-A))
(use-module (gnucash report report-B))
which appears in standard-reports.scm, with
(define (get-report-list) (list
'report-A
'report-B
))
(for-each (lambda (x) (resolve-module (append '(gnucash report) x)))
(get-report-list))
which does nothing new, but does allow me to replace (get-report-list) with a
function which returns the names of all .scm files. This will then allow a
user/developer to just drop a new report file into the reports directory,
restart gnucash, and it will be picked up. Or, (get-report-list) could read
the list of report file names from a standard-report-names.txt file, which
would allow the user/developer to drop a report file into the reports
directory, add the file name to the standard-report-names.txt, then restart.
My preference is for the former (fewer steps), but a little more difficult.
The reports directory currently holds all of the report files (both standard
and business) as well as some support files. I think what I will do is create
a 'standard-reports' subdirectory to the reports directory, and put the
standard reports (or symlinks) there. get-report-list will then have a single
directory from which to get all of the file names.
Comments?
Phil
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