I think I understand at least some of the reasons for GC being single-user, but I'm curious if there's been any more thought lately to building multi-user functionality into GnuCash in future?
Cheers, -- Erik Anderson On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Christian Stimming <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, Herbert, for the link. > > The article raises one valid serious concern: The database backend does > nothing to prevent multiple user access. This is bad because simultaneous > access to the SQL database from multiple users will almost surely cause data > loss. On the other hand, the technology term "SQL backend" will almost > surely raise the user expectation that multiple user access were possible, > so for sure people will give it a try. Since it will corrupt their data, we > need to build in some prevention measure - the equivalent of the "lock > file", but inside the SQL database. Ideas, anyone? > > Also, it's amusing to me to see the "cutecash" project already mentioned in > there, even though it's only accessible through the SVN sources :-) > > Regards, > > Christian > > Zitat von Herbert Thoma <[email protected]>: > > http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/387967/cc502c0dc33d97d3/ >> -- >> Herbert Thoma >> Dipl.-Ing., MBA >> Head of Video Group >> Multimedia Realtime Systems Department >> Fraunhofer IIS >> Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany >> Phone: +49-9131-776-6130 >> Fax: +49-9131-776-6099 >> email: [email protected] >> www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ >> _______________________________________________ >> gnucash-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
