Re: GnuCash page on GO site

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:34:06PM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:09:41PM -0500, Derek Atkins was heard to remark:
> > linas linas org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
> > 
> > > Lets just be careful not to go into this eyes-wide-shut.
> > 
> > I think in the short-term we just want to leverage their plotting and
> > graphing tools (considering that Guppi has been abandoned).  What
> 
> My apologies for the guppi fiasco. I feel responsible ... 
> I trusted someone's word once that guppi was great shit even
> thought my gut instinct went the other way.  And so I promoted
> it to the gnumeric folks, making myself look foolish too ... 
> again, my apologies.

Guppi was and is damn cool.  Trow had a huge pile of useful code in
there.  Unfortunately, without him maintaining it there's just not
much point in trying to move it along from the state it was in.
He's just too damn smart.  Deciphering the design would have taken
more work than just rewriting something simpler.

The plotting engine in goffice is like a mini-guppi
A somewhat dumbed down variant that I can understand well enough to
extend when we need it.
 
> > use these "new whiz-bang gizmos" -- if anything I think GO wants to
> > use some of OUR code... :)
> 
> ooo OOOOO hhhh!

Sure.  Merging best of breed toys into goffice would be a help.
I suspect that overtime it may make sense to migrate towards some of
the goffice data types to avoid having to map in and out, but that
doesn't seem crucial.  The biggest step would probably be moving to
libgsf, which I'd suggest.  The added transparency for i/o sources
has been very nice.  It would be nice to see if it's support for
files is strong enough for gnucash's needs (eg locking and
transactions).