RE: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2011-02-06 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 13:21 +0100, david.vali...@email.cz wrote: > Dears Christian, Derek, John, Phil, > > first of all, let me express congrats to the great job you've done with > GnuCash. Its 2.4 release is here thanks to your effort and the skills you've > put into the project over the years

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:31 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Dardis wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma >>> wrote: >>> On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: > >>>

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Herbert Thoma writes: > >> Hmm, I just would like to point out that GnuCash was kind of a script once: >> It was a guile script that called the C/gtk/gnome code (OK, the GUI code >> was not directly scripted). It took us a long time to rework t

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Dardis wrote: >> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma >> wrote: >> >>> On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: >> >>

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Dardis wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma > wrote: > >> On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: >>> >>> Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: > > > >> I am not that sure that an interpreted language is a good

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Anthony Dardis
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma wrote: On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: I am not that sure that an interpreted language is a good idea. But I am an electrical engineer not a computer scientist. So I ten

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Herbert Thoma writes: > Hmm, I just would like to point out that GnuCash was kind of a script once: > It was a guile script that called the C/gtk/gnome code (OK, the GUI code > was not directly scripted). It took us a long time to rework this back to > a C application that called guile for the re

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 December 2010 07:28, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On December 28, 2010 6:09:59 PM -0800 John Ralls > wrote: > >> There are two drivers for reimplementation: >> >> 1. One of our goals for 2.6 is to enable multiple simultaneous access >> to a dataset. In order to get there, large swaths of exist

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Herbert Thoma
On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best 2nd/runtime/scripting language?" In 2010/2011, given that Gnucash isn't a game, there is really only one choice: Javascript. While ht

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-29 Thread Herbert Thoma
On 28.12.2010 22:27, Christian Stimming wrote: <...> Lots of good reasoning skipped. PS: Gee, this message was too long. It should have been split into at least three different messages. If you read until here, I'll give you a beer in case we ever meet :-) So I made it till the end. I'll reme

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Alexander
--On December 28, 2010 6:09:59 PM -0800 John Ralls wrote: There are two drivers for reimplementation: 1. One of our goals for 2.6 is to enable multiple simultaneous access to a dataset. In order to get there, large swaths of existing code need to be rewritten to interact directly with the dat

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: >> >> On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> >>> John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: 2. Gtk+-3.0 is supposed to be released next month. It removes a bunch of libraries whi

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: > >> 2. Gtk+-3.0 is supposed to be released next month. It removes a bunch of > >> libraries which have been deprecated for several years upon which Gnucash

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 28, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: > John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: >> 2. Gtk+-3.0 is supposed to be released next month. It removes a bunch of >> libraries which have been deprecated for several years upon which Gnucash >> at present depends. All code that depends on th

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
John Ralls (jra...@ceridwen.us) said: > 2. Gtk+-3.0 is supposed to be released next month. It removes a bunch of > libraries which have been deprecated for several years upon which Gnucash > at present depends. All code that depends on those libraries needs to get > rewritten or we're not going t

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 28, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On December 28, 2010 10:27:48 PM +0100 Christian Stimming > wrote: > >> It seems to me my C++ experiment (as I would call it) has still not >> yet been understood the way I thought, so I'll elaborate a bit on >> what I did and what my co

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Alexander
--On December 28, 2010 10:27:48 PM +0100 Christian Stimming wrote: It seems to me my C++ experiment (as I would call it) has still not yet been understood the way I thought, so I'll elaborate a bit on what I did and what my conclusions are. Incidentally, I'm a scientist. If I make some claim

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-28 Thread Donald Allen
2010/12/28 Christian Stimming : > Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: >> The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best >> 2nd/runtime/scripting language?" >> >> In 2010/2011, given that Gnucash isn't a game, there is really only one >> choice: Javascript. While http

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-28 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: > The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best > 2nd/runtime/scripting language?" > > In 2010/2011, given that Gnucash isn't a game, there is really only one > choice: Javascript. While http://live.gnome.org/Gjs seems rather dea

Re: Future of Gnucash: Most productive platform (programming language and toolkit)?

2010-12-28 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Phil, thanks for bringing up this issue now that we managed to get 2.4.0 out. Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Phil Longstaff: > A few months ago, Christian Stimming started CuteCash with the aims of > replacing gtk by Qt/C++. The idea was that development in gtk/C was too > slow and

Re: Future of Gnucash

2010-12-28 Thread Jeff Warnica
I had a long, rambling message, but I'll summarize. Please excuse the bluntness. I'm not a Gnucash developer, but could be. My opinions might be technically wrong, and make me a self-destructive asshole, but I'm happy with that. The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best 2nd/run

Re: Future of Gnucash

2010-12-28 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 08:50 -0800, John Ralls wrote: > I'd much prefer C++ to GObjects, but either is better than the GObjects > without the G that you used for the dbi/sql backend. We can make the > transition gradually, as C++ and C inter-operate nicely. Yeah. That just grew. c++ would have

Re: Future of Gnucash

2010-12-28 Thread John Ralls
On Dec 28, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > The subject sounds a bit ominous, but I don't mean it to be. > > 2.4.0 is now out the door. Already there are ideas rolling in about the > next enhancements. I was just about to tackle one of the enhancements > when instead, I thought I woul

RE: Future of GnuCash

2004-12-20 Thread David Bottomley
I agree. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bradley Grohs Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Future of GnuCash Just a little something from the penut Gallary. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.