general design issues (Was: ANNOUNCE version 1.1.20)

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
a client/server design, just to guarantee that the GUI guys won't mutilate the engine functionality every time they implement a new visual quirk. Besides, I want to make sure GnuCash allows doing all stuff Quicken does and beyond. -- Alexander L. Belikoff Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial

Re: ANNOUNCE version 1.1.20

1998-10-16 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
A per se, I am not the most knowledgeable person over here. To me, CORBA always meant "an ominously bloated piece of software trying to solve too many problems to be used reliably in small- and medium-scale projects". Maybe I am wrong...

Re: ANNOUNCE version 1.1.20

1998-10-14 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It's been rumoured that Alexander L. Belikoff said: > > I've been thinking a lot recently about a way of doing such things > > right. Now it seems to me the right approach would be splitting the > > application by two distinct

Re: ANNOUNCE version 1.1.20

1998-10-13 Thread Alexander L. Belikoff
llow loading shared modules w/ encryption, database I/O and additional import/export facilities. Once this is done, it'll be relatively easy to create clients using various GUI kits - all of them will use the same API. Am I right in this approach, or there is something I'm missi