Dear Andre, thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN and build it yourself (on some Linux/Unix computer), see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
If you're interested in python scripting, I would suggest two things: * First, you should read through the example scripts in src/optional/python- bindings/example_scripts and run those as, well, examples. * Secondly, you can check out the brand new SVN (r20472 or higher), then modify the file src/python/init.py in the end to say "if True:", then play around with the python console that opens upon next gnucash start (if your python path includes $prefix/lib/python). From my understanding, every action that you can invoke from that console should also be easy to add as a menu item anywhere inside gnucash. Feel free to come up with interesting ideas that can easily be added through python, but might have been very difficult in non- python before. Examples that come to mind are: Import from or export to various file formats, e.g. http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature- request/suggestions/1470567-import-export-client-supplier-details?ref=title or https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637004 Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page are useful suggestions for a project. Best Regards, Christian Am Mittwoch, 23. März 2011 schrieb Andre Murbach Maidl: > Hi, > > I'm a student and was taking a look at Google SoC proposed projects for > gnucash and got very interested > to work on python reporting and scripting engine. > > Besides python I would like to include lua as well, if there is time to do > it during SoC. > > If not I would consider it as a future project. > The reason why I'm interested to include lua also is that I'm currently > working with lua at the university I'm studying. > > If there is a possibility of working on this project I would be glad to get > in touch with its mentor. > > Many thanks, > Andre > _______________________________________________ > 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
