> On Jan 6, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Agnew Casher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying to familiarize myself with the above-mentioned dependencies > and wanted to know if there were plans to simplify them. In particular, > the simplification would help eliminate some of the circular > compilation dependencies. > > For example: > "Book" should only need to depend on "Instance" (ie: through its > "inheritance") and then "Instance" should only depend on "Backend" (ie: > through a Factory inheritance model). The "Backend" can then deal with > the "File/XML", "SQL", etc... data stores required by "Instance" and > "Book". > > Currently, it appears that "Backend" depends on "Book" to store its > meta-data through "Key-Value Pair" arrays and/or Collections, including > what could be considered "Run-Time Type Information"(RTTI). Perhaps, by > distinguishing such meta-data from accounting-data and having the > "Backend" deal with "Data Stores"(instead of "Book"), this may go a > long way in simplifying the current design?
Yes, we'll clean that up as part of the C++11 rewrite. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
