> On Mar 23, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Станислав Тактаев <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do I understand correctly, that you as yourself are not interested i in this > line of development of GNUCash? > No, but you seem not to understand that I refuse to have a private discussion about the development of GnuCash. This will be my last reply to you until you start copying the list.
Regards, John Ralls > > > 23.03.2017 17:56, John Ralls пишет: >> I'm not going to have a private conversation with you about this. Either >> subscribe to the list and discuss it publicly there or go away. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >>> On Mar 23, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Станислав Тактаев <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> John, thank you for your answer! >>> >>> Befor you say me, I planned to use simple way, to substitute functions, >>> that read and write data and copy data both locally (for speed) and >>> distributed by calling blockchain API . What do you think, how big scope of >>> such work, in programmer-monthes? >>> >>> What class and methods responding for read/write? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 23.03.2017 3:00, John Ralls пишет: >>>> >>>>> On Mar 22, 2017, at 8:05 AM, [email protected] >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear Jonh! >>>>> I saw git history on GNUCash and understood that you made a lot of >>>>> commits to different modules. >>>>> I have the idea to connect blockchain to GNUCash as database. It seems to >>>>> me very useful because, when successful, GNUCash become first worldwide >>>>> distributed accounting system. >>>>> Can you help me to understand, how GNUcash DB engine designed and works >>>>> "under the hood" and how do design and connect new DB engine? >>>>> >>>>> If you are busy, could you recommend someone who can advise me about this? >>>> >>>> Please do not contact developers directly. We have mailing lists for that: >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel >>>> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel> >>>> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user >>>> <https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user> >>>> >>>> Your question is a development one, so I'm copying gnucash-devel in this >>>> reply. You should subscribe to that list and be sure to copy the list on >>>> all of your future replies. >>>> >>>> GnuCash at present uses the backend as a plain datastore: If the user has >>>> selected the XML backend, the file is loaded into memory at start up or >>>> when the user opens a new file, optionally saved (manually or >>>> automatically) periodically during the session, and saved again when the >>>> user closes GnuCash or opens a different file. >>>> >>>> The SQL backend is similar in that the database is loaded in its entirety >>>> when opening a new session, but different in that any change to an object >>>> is immediately written back to the database. >>>> >>>> Having to have everything in memory creates a bunch of limitations, >>>> especially with regards to multiple users accessing the data at once, so >>>> we have a long-term project to recast GnuCash as a normal SQL database >>>> application that loads only the data it immediately needs and can lock >>>> records for editing. Thanks to some poor design decisions >>>> in the past and our decision to concurrently redo much of GnuCash's >>>> internals in C++ (from incorrectly done GObject code), this is a many-year >>>> project. >>>> >>>> You're not the first to suggest a block-chain based backend, but so far no >>>> one has come up with a significant advantage or a reasonable plan for >>>> implementation. I'm looking forward to seeing what you propose. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> John Ralls >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> С уважением, Станислав >>> www.taktaev.ru <http://www.taktaev.ru/> >>> www.facebook.com/s.taktaev <http://www.facebook.com/s.taktaev> > > -- > С уважением, Станислав > www.taktaev.ru <http://www.taktaev.ru/> > www.facebook.com/s.taktaev <http://www.facebook.com/s.taktaev> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
