[companion-discuss] Open Software Environment for Packages

[Paul Gress]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:31:31AM -0400, Paul Gress wrote:
>   
>> Philip Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> Interesting. Do you know of any free [accounting software packages?]
>>> I'd be happy to add it onto  our "requested packages" page.
>>>
>>> ( http://www.blastwave.org/pkgreq )
>>>       
>> Yes, that would be gnucash (www.gnucash.org).  I believe I've requested 
>> this one approx. 1-1/2 to 2 years ago.
>>     
>
> Ah, sorry.. when I hear "accounting", I think massively huge things made
> for 10,000 employee corporations :-)
> Yeah, gnucash is one of our sore points. It's also one of the most annoying
> to package up, I hear. People know that. so they are reluctant to take it
> on.
>
>   
Maybe it's time to reconsider it.  It's now in pre 2.0 release (1.9.5) 
and uses the libs of gnome 2 and not  the old gnome 1 series.