On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 06:12:35AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to operate gnucash under Windows, not because I am a > Windows fan but for ease of transitioning from Quicken to gnucash (I > have too many years of data for a quick test). I am currently trying > to make gnucash work under the cygwin environment with the current > version of gnucash, and there is hope yet (but slow going). > > However, in the long term I wonder if there is any interest in going > another route: > > -use a cross-platform solution GUI like Qt, fltk2, or wxWidgets > (please, not java); > or perhaps perl or python GUIs
At this point, it's probably less work to port gtk+ to a new platform than it would be to reintroduce toolkit-independence into GnuCash. Seriously. > -convert the whole C code base to C++ That's a hard sell. It's easy to see the disadvantages and hard to see the advantages. Please be aware that some potential advantages are already provided by our use of glib/gobject. > -eliminate scheme/guile Step #1 in that process would be to use SWIG. You would likely find much support if you were to attempt this. > -use a self-contained Windows package and installer for that version Well, feel free to demonstrate this, but AFAIK GnuCash still doesn't work as well on Windows as elsewhere, so that's probably a more pressing issue. -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
