On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:48:15PM -0700, Derek Neighbors was heard to remark: > So much of what is discussed is already do able in GNU Enterprise. I have > not entered into the discussion as I know Linas, Dru and Rodrigo are all > familiar with GNUe so I suspect they have their reasons.
I'll profer a couple of reasons (and these are *not* criticisms of gnue, just general comments): -- working out the c-to-python-and-back-again bindings are scary, what not with the gtk and scheme event loops already vying for dominence. -- Install; repeatable, servicable user-interface experience. Gnucash has already taken a pounding for being too hard to install. Most of our bugs are cross-interface bugs, where things work only if version x of this is installed, and the obvious work arounds fail due to version conflicts. We're ciritcally dependent on obsolete interfaces, e.g. guppi. Another example, gconfd-1 vs. gconfd-2 is biting us these days. No fault of our own; we don't use gconfd. Its simply that gtkhtml uses gconf and lord knows why. And scheme/slib/g-wrap have changed in incompatible ways for reasons unbeknownst to us; these changes only serve to make gnucash unstable, unusable. I'm scared of gnue mostly because I perceive it to be a moving target, with its own set of dependencies and infrastructre. In the same way, I suspect enterprise java beans have a lot of these functions as well. But I figure that ejb is a platform that will never become stable, debuggable, supportable. (crap the only java app I use on a daily basis cannot even communicate with the window manager correctly; it creates insane window sizes. wtf I've complained about this, but that bug will never be fixed. This is not a criticism of gnue, but is an anti-illustration of what I mean by "stable debuggable supportable". And yes, its probably Sun's fault.) --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
