z33...@gmail.com writes: > I think I understand at least some of the reasons for GC being single-user, > but I'm curious if there's been any more thought lately to building > multi-user functionality into GnuCash in future?
I believe there is an unstated goal of getting minimal multi-user support working. However doing it right is a major undertaking, because it involves lots of cache consistency issues. You have to make sure that updates at one client affect changes in all the clients. That's a lot of work and restructuring for an application that wasn't designed for that. Repeat after me: GnuCash is NOT a DATABASE Application. It just uses a database as a backing-store. > Cheers, > > -- Erik Anderson -derek > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Christian Stimming <stimm...@tuhh.de>wrote: > >> Thanks, Herbert, for the link. >> >> The article raises one valid serious concern: The database backend does >> nothing to prevent multiple user access. This is bad because simultaneous >> access to the SQL database from multiple users will almost surely cause data >> loss. On the other hand, the technology term "SQL backend" will almost >> surely raise the user expectation that multiple user access were possible, >> so for sure people will give it a try. Since it will corrupt their data, we >> need to build in some prevention measure - the equivalent of the "lock >> file", but inside the SQL database. Ideas, anyone? >> >> Also, it's amusing to me to see the "cutecash" project already mentioned in >> there, even though it's only accessible through the SVN sources :-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Christian >> >> Zitat von Herbert Thoma <herbert.th...@iis.fraunhofer.de>: >> >> http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/387967/cc502c0dc33d97d3/ >>> -- >>> Herbert Thoma >>> Dipl.-Ing., MBA >>> Head of Video Group >>> Multimedia Realtime Systems Department >>> Fraunhofer IIS >>> Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany >>> Phone: +49-9131-776-6130 >>> Fax: +49-9131-776-6099 >>> email: t...@iis.fhg.de >>> www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gnucash-devel mailing list >>> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> gnucash-devel@gnucash.org >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
