In the long run, I'd really like us to be able to work on gnucash in a much more interactive fashion, whether that's via ilisp and emacs, or just being able to have an active guile prompt while gnucash is running. Now that gnucash is just a guile script that loads shared libraries this is much more likely to be possible.
Having a high level of interactivity can allow for some *much* faster debugging cycles, to which I suspect most people who have worked in good interactive environments can attest (i.e. allegro CL, MCL, emacs elisp, etc.) However, in order for this to work, the source has to be written to accomodate your expectations. For example, if you want to allow people to (load-from-path "foo.scm") after making some changes, then foo.scm has to be written so that re-loading it into a running guile doesn't break anything. Or maybe we don't care as much about re-loading whole files. If you're using ilisp and emacs with guile, I believe you can just put your cursor inside a function and hit a key and that function will be shipped off to and redefined within the running guile image. Also, aside from plain scheme files, there's the issue of guile modules and gnc modules. What if you want to re-load one of those? For guile modules, if the module is written to handle it, you should be able to just (load-from-path "some-module-file.scm"), though this won't catch *un*-definitions of things. Finally, I'm not sure at all where gnc-modules stand. I'm not sure it's safe to unload/re-load these, though it seems a little iffy. You could just re-load the .scm files and maybe get those changes... This issue is not something that I'm working on heavily at the moment, but it is something I'd like us to keep in mind, and once we know what we want, perhaps move toward over time. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
