Re: GnuCash page on GO site

[msevior physics unimelb edu au]

> Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:
>
>> Wrong level of abstraction.  The core of gsf is a stream interface
>> read/write.  You can pump whatever data you want into that.  The
>> benefit is the simple comfortable interface that will go to or from
>>     - files
>>     - memory buffers
>>     - mmap
>>     - gzip/bzip content
>>     - vfs/bonobo (with the optional libgsf-gnome)
>> The other main abstraction is the structured file interface with
>> implementations for zip, ole2 (possibly tar if I bother to finish
>> it).  I suspect you just want to pump over some xml.  No need for a
>> zip file of fields.  Although there are some cute little libxml
>> convenience routines to make writing fast sax based parsers and
>> exporters (including namespaces) easy.
>
> This isn't code we're working on right now.  What we've got works, and
> we're not really making any changes to it at this point in time.
>
>>> A better overview of gal would be nice.
>>
>> Just call it 'libevolution' and ignore it.
>
> Wish I could -- it's a dependency of either libgtkhtml or libgnomeui
> -- I don't recall which.  So I can't ignore it.   Wish I could.
>

What do you use gtkhtml for?

Martin

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