On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:34:20PM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > A long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away) there existed a set of > > > PERL bindings to the gnucash engine. Using swig, one could compile > > > the bindings and write perl apps directly. Through the course of time > > > (and lack of a maintainer) these perl bindings fell into disrepair...
Actually, they worked fine last time I tried them. They just got taken out of the makefiles/distro for some vague reason. > > Oh, I see. My idea is something *much* less ambitious, read-only > > access to the data. Should be fairly trivial to keep current, since > > the data file is in XML and I'm trying to write the perl module > > assuming no prior knowledge of the data structure (not totally > > possible, but close). > > > > I'll post when I have some working code. The old swig-based perl bindings could read and write. The only problem with them is I couldn't figure out how to make swig turn a perl @ array into a GList and back again, making it hard to work with the functions that returned glists. > Well, keep in mind that the long-term plan is to move away from XML > as the data file format, so honestly your time is better spent trying > to resurrect the swig bindings if you really want/need PERL bindings. I would agree, the swig bindings were flexible, powerful. > Or perhaps you can figure out how to do what you want using guile? I also agree, scheme is a bit mind-bending at first, but thats' good. Widens you perspective of what's possible in computing. There's much, much more to life than c/perl-like langs. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
