Better to either imbed Guile in the executable or start replacing it piece
by piece.
Too many dependencies on other peoples work.
Mentor Graphics faced the same problem with 16,000,000 lines of source code
for one product written in several languages.
They laid off the US help and sent the code
On Dec 3, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Devin Theriot-Orr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just joined this list after searching the archives and finding this
> thread from earlier this year:
>
>>> On 19.01.2011 05:22, Mike Alexander wrote:
> --On January 18, 2011 4:07:17 PM -0800 Russ Walasek gmail.com
On 03 Dec 2011, at 11:40 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
> Gnucash has been around
> for a long time, and its life-span covers the development of a lot of
> tools. If you were going to start with a blank sheet of paper today, I
> doubt very much whether you would do a lot of the system as it is
> today. T
As with Donald, I haven't contributed any code, but I would tend to agree
that there is a problem.
A rewrite from scratch is a drastic solution to that not quite as drastic
problem.
The roadmap on the Wiki is more like a wishlist, and the schedule is, well,
non existent. Sorry, I see that there i
This is becoming a good, healthy discussion, with a variety of
viewpoints that make for interesting reading.
But to those who seem to think that starting over is *always* a bad
idea, I'd ask you if you'd like to be running Windows 3.1.14159/MSDOS
19 on your PCs, instead of something based on Windo
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:40:07 -0500, Donald Allen wrote:
> I've been watching with interest the messages flying by from various
> people that confirm the impression (from just trying to build it) that
> Gnucash has become a gigantic hairball. John Ralls has been saying a
> number of things that sou
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:35:08 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote:
> On 03 Dec 2011, at 11:40 PM, Donald Allen wrote:
>
>> Gnucash has been around
>> for a long time, and its life-span covers the development of a lot of
>> tools. If you were going to start with a blank sheet of paper today, I
>> doubt ver
