A bunch of us have been discussing it on IRC. There's a g_spawn API that we could use, but there's not been consensus on the right way to use it. I.e., what code should get re-written and how (in particular in the price quotes subsystem).
-derek Quoting Andrew Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Is anyone actively working on fork()/pipe()/gzip problem for GNUCash on > Windows? If not then I thought I might see how far I can get in trying > to fix it. > > My first thought was to see what other projects had done about this > problem, as it can't be too uncommon. I wondered about using libraries > from UWIN which has an implementation of fork(), etc on Windows. That > does seem too easy though (assuming it works)! Before I start on > investigating it can anyone think of a reason not to follow this? > Details of UWIN at http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ > > It's a while since I undertook software development but this particular > problem seems like something of value to work on, but it might take me a > while to set up the environment and tools, etc. > > Andrew > > Andrew Wood, 166 Divinity Road, Oxford. OX4 1LR. > Tel: 01865 201 728/ 07973 953 446 > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
