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<h1>GnuCash (formerly X-Accountant) Project Goals</h1>
GnuCash (previously known as X-Accountant) is a personal finance
<a href="http://gnucash.org">GnuCash</a>
(previously known as X-Accountant) is a personal finance
accounting application. The project goals are to create a world-class
GPL'ed Open Source personal financial application for GNU/Linux and other
Unix's. The project is the result of a merger
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<h2>News</h2>
<dl>
<dt><b>April 1998</b>
<dd>The domain "gnucash.org" has been registered; web site is up.
<p>
<dt><b>10 April 1998</b>
<dd>Work on OFX support, and user-prefrences, has begun in earnest.
<p>
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windows much simpler and easier.
<p>
<b>Current Status:</b> the latest alpha-development releases (version
1.1.x) contain such an object. Its currently motif-based, but
should be easily portable to Qt, GTK, curses.
1.1.x) contain such an object.
<ul>
<li>Currently Motif-based
<li>GTK port is read-only
<li>No Qt port yet
<li>the simple single-account ledgers (incl. stock ledgers) seem
to be working correctly, but no heavy testing yet.
<li>The multiple-account ledger is ery broken.
<li>The multi-split ledger is still unimplemented. Since I know
how this should work, I hope to work on it soon.
<li>read-only GTK version published, thanks to Rob Browning.
(other comments above are for motif version).
<li>query for date range completely missing.
<li>No curses version yet.
</ul>
<p>
<dt><b>Extension Language Support</b>
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their own library, should be created. Routines to help make the
engine more transaction-processing oriented should be added.
<p>
<b>Current Status:</b> The basic engine has been detangled from
the GUI elements, as of version 1.1.4. Binary file i/o still
remains tangled. Transaction processing constructs are present, but
do nothing and are not enforced.
<b>Current Status:</b>
<ul>
<li>The basic engine has been detangled from
the GUI elements, as of version 1.1.4.
<li>Binary file i/o still remains tangled.
<li>prototype for transaction logging in place
<li>backup files automatically created & timestamped.
<li>BeginEdit()/CommitEdit() routines mostly in place,
These "Transaction processing constructs"
should simplify creation of an SQL back end.
<li>Engine seems to be working correctly, but no heavy testing yet.
<li>Support for alternate sort orders, or query for subset of
all transactions completely missing.
</ul>
<p>
<dt><b>OFX support</b>
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The OFX DTD's are included in the 1.1 distributions. See
<a href="http://www.ofx.org">OFX HomePage</a> for details.
<p>
<b>Status:</b>Work on an OFX DTD parser has begun.
Simple scripts have been run past OFX servers.
<b>Status:</b>
<ul>
<li>Work on an OFX DTD parser has begun. headers generated
correctly. Constrcutors generated almost correctly.
<li>Simple scripts have been run against real-live OFX servers.
</ul>
<p>
<dt><b>Budgeting</b>
<dd>Ability to handle budgeted future transactions.
<p>
<b>Status:</b>
A design doc has been started.
<p>
</dl>
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still be possible to specify the fees, the transfer, and other
details from a single window.
<p>
<b>Status</b>: Some basic reorganization of register was done to
support mixed multi-line split display. However, the actual
display of such things remaions unimplemented.
<p>
<dt><b>User Preferences</b>
<dd>Create menu system & file format for manipulating user
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<p>
<dt><b>Quicken(TM) Export</b>
<dd>Ability to export Quicken QIF files.
<dd>Ability to export Quicken QIF files. Quicken import is implemented
and mostly works.
<p>
<dt><b>Tab-delimited ASCII file format</b>
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</ul>
<hr>
Draft version 0.21 -- April 1998<br>
Draft version 0.22 -- April 1998<br>
Linas Vepstas <a href="mailto:linas@linas.org">linas@linas.org</a><br>
Robin Clark <a href="mailto:rclark@hmc.edu">rclark@hmc.edu</a><br>
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