Ah OK I see, I think I misunderstood originally I though the new code
was around the corner (and I was wondering who was doing all this insane
porting work).
The thing that seems tricky is, fixing bugs obviously must be done in C
mostly. For new features, it's hard to separate them enough that they
can be written as separate C++ files no?
So what needs to be done, I guess, is to go ahead and little by little
convert every little piece of GC? Seems daunting.
J.
On 7/8/2020 8:29 PM, John Ralls wrote:
It's a desired trend alright. We push for new code to use modern C++ (meaning
C++ 11 idioms and with more emphasis on generics than OO), but not every
contributor is up to writing that. *But* GnuCash is over a million lines of C
code and we expect it will take many years and many development cycles to
convert everything.
There's another consideration: Our GUI is Gtk, and while there's a C++ wrapper
for it called gtkmm we don't use that much. We also have bindings created via
SWIG, and while SWIG was designed for C++ and works reasonably well with it it
takes a fair amount of care to get it to work correctly. To deal with those the
C++ modules we've created are wrapped in C to ease portability.
Regards,
John Ralls
On Jul 8, 2020, at 6:00 PM, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote:
IIUC this is a desired trend, waiting for good pair of hands!
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020, 12:33 am Jean Laroche, <rip...@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe I mis-remember, but I thought that 4.0 would be the version where
we switch from using C to using C++ + boost etc for most of the code in
GC...
Was I confused? Is there still a plan to do this rewrite? If so how far
along is it, and when will it be folded into the current branches?
J.
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