On 06 Jul 2000 01:15:56 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
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> Rob Browning, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Swig will be going away as a "normally compiled" bit. It'll still be
> >available as an --enable-swig option, at least for the time being, and
> >pretty soon, there'll be an easy way to do this with the text format.
>
> Coolness. I was worried it was going to go away completely.
>
> I also wanted to get into the gnucash code and I can't do that if I
> didn't have a problem to solve.
Note that there's also the _other_ option; exporting the engine API
via CORBA.
CORBA can come "virtually for free" as we've got enough dependancies
on other bits of GNOME that it may be virtually _assumed_ that we've
got ORBit around to provide a CORBA implementation.
> >Oh, you'd be fine. Scheme hasn't changed much since then :> If you
> >decide you'd like to try scheme, I'd be happy to help.
>
> Except that I've changed significantly since then. The retrieval
> mechanism in the wetware isn't up to it. :) I'd need to re-learn
> scheme while I already know Perl. Thanks for the offer of help...
>
> >> I do have two questions about this over and above any problems with my
> >> code.
> >> 1) Is there a way to get a list of all the entries in account_type_name
> >> so I don't have a static list in my file that can go out of date.
> >
> >No, but there probably should be.
>
> How difficult would it be to add such a thing? I assume that it should
> probably be in src/engine/AccInfo.c with a name like
> xaccGetAllAccountTypes?
This sounds to me like the sort of thing that would be valuable to add
as CORBA API stuff...
I've done some CORBA scripting using Python, which has turned out quite
well; I gather than it's not too bad to do in Perl, either.
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