On Saturday, November 15, 2014, Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de> wrote:
> Dear Sébastien, > > I really try not to be rude, but a little bit it seems to me as if you > don't > accept "no" as an answer here. You asked whether the gnucash developers > support an alternative SQL access layer written in python from scratch, and > John's and other answers clearly said "no". What else are you looking for? > > Hello Christian, I don't think I have asked the question you point here above but I admit I have asked a lot of other questions (to say the least ;-) ) and I got the answers of John and Derek right : they do not think it can be successful to write an external application/library that works directly on the SQL database due mainly to the complexity of the GnuCash engine (and how it handles/keeps the data in sync) > John as already outlined many important aspects about our object model. In > case you haven't see this so far, some current documentation is also here > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/C_API and the linked "Entity-Relationship > Diagram" there, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/images/8/86/Gnucash_erd.png . > > Thank you for the links (I had read these pages before starting working on the project and there were very useful). > But let's just make this clear: You asked whether your idea would be > endorsed > and supported by us, and the answer was clearly a "no". If you like to > continue your idea, feel free to do so. But just don't repeatedly discuss > here > whether we want to change our answer (at this point in time). Thanks! > > As written here above, I have not asked this question. To recap, I could/can not find a satisfying solution to my needs (work on GnuCash books from python): - going the XML way (instead of SQL) has been suggested but suffers from all the drawbacks from the SQL way (data corruption) - using the official python binding is painful for me (swig/C code, install on windows) I have done in the summer a pure python package that worked for my needs. As this was very useful, I planned to make it more robust and release it. Before doing that I wanted to notify you/the core devs and get some advice, which I got thanks to the time John and Derek spent on this thread (and I can't be more grateful to them). I continue to work on piecash and it is going smoothly but I have been warned of the difficulties lying ahead. Kind regards Sebastien _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
