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- To: qof-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
- Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org
- Subject: QOF 0.6.0 released!
- From: Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 15:45:57 +0100
- Message-id: <200510231546.01379.linux@codehelp.co.uk>
QOF - Query Object Framework - library to add a query engine to C applications with generic XML backend. A SQL database is not needed; any collection of C/C++ objects can act as tables. Used by GnuCash, GnoTime, pilot-QOF, cashutil and qof-gen (The upcoming GnuCash Gnome2 port will use QOF externally for the first time.) QOF v0.6.0 (libqof1) is finally on full release. QOF v0.6.0 adds a lot of new code, including a new, dedicated, XML backend, book merge support, new data types and improved methods for loading other suitable backends. The logging subsystem has been overhauled to make it more generic and easier to use with other applications. The backends are now loaded using GModule which requires each backend to use QofBackendProvider and install the .la file alongside the backend library in the *main* package, not the -dev or -devel package. v0.6.0 introduces libqof1 which will remain API compatible until all the changes below can be folded into libqof2: 1. All gnucash-specific code to be removed. Most of this has been done in v0.6.0 2. Filename and function name conventions to be made to conform to a single method: filenames: qof<module>.c|h functions: qof_<module>_<function>_ ... e.g. gnc_date.h becomes qofdate.h qof_book_mergeInit becomes qof_book_merge_init gnc_numeric_zero becomes qof_numeric_zero gnc_set_logfile becomes qof_log_setfile. gnc-trace.c|h becomes qoflog.c|h 3. These changes will be made by deprecating old names and making old files into placeholders. When libqof2 is ready for pre-release, all deprecated elements will include compiler flags that will highlight the code that needs to be changed and placeholder files may be removed at this stage. All flags and deprecated code will then be removed in the final libqof2 release. 4. To make this change easier, the qof.h header has been fixed in v0.6.0 and is now the only header file required to be included to use QOF. Using individual header files in applications linked against QOF is now *deprecated*. All code that uses QOF should only use: #include <qof.h> // or #include "qof.h" This is the only file guaranteed to maintain access to the full QOF API during the entire life of libqof1 and libqof2. The QOF documentation is entirely embedded in the source code. You can build an html version of the documentation by installing the 'doxygen' package, and then 'cd doc; make doc'. This and all later versions of QOF use the 'pkg' system of managing include files and libraries. Full advice on building against and packaging QOF is available in the HACKING file in CVS, also reproduced on the SourceForge project site: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=30421&group_id=83302 All queries on QOF 0.6.0 should be directed to the QOF-devel mailing list (not any of the gnucashlists ): qof-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qof-devel -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/Attachment: pgpUVGDsOHbvi.pgp
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