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Subject: state of GnuCash Date: Friday 15 August 2003 15:19 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you considered breaking up GnuCash into a set of command line programs and then tie them together with a GUI for those people that want a GUI? I would really like to be able to do financial management "UNIX-style": use crontab to schedule downloads, use a script to warn me of missed payments, etc. I would imagine that all the data exchange among those programs would happen using XML. GnuCash right now just seems to be a big, monolithic GUI program (well, maybe there is some Guile scripting in there somewhere). I already have that with Quicken or MS Money, which I, like most people, got "free" with my computer. And it's not surprising that development of a monolithic GUI program grinds to a halt when it has become this complex. Breaking up GnuCash into command line programs and a GUI would both give it new functionality (namely, UNIX-style automation), and it would make it much easier for new developers to add functionality (namely, simply by providing new command line programs for things like downloading, reconciliation, alerts, etc.). Cheers, Thomas. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Benoit Gr�goire http://step.polymtl.ca/~bock/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
