diff --git a/README b/README index f7896f2ab0..b27542921d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -235,10 +235,29 @@ cvs -d :pserver:cvs@linas.org:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout xacc Main Developers: ---------------- -Robin Clark wrote the original X-Accountant -Linas Vepstas rewrote the original X-Accountant -Jeremy Collins for GnuCash web site & GTK/gnome code -Rob Browning for perl, scheme, init/prefs, GTK/gnome port +Robin Clark wrote the original X-Accountant in Motif + as a school project, taking it to version 0.9 by October 1997. + +Linas Vepstas liked what he saw: the GUI was slick, + the code was documented and well structured, and it was all GPL'ed. + And so he re-wrote it: adding cell-widgets to XbaeMatrix, so that + the combobox and arrows would make an even slicker GUI, rewrote the + X-Accountant internals to add double-entry, an account heirarchy, + split out a transaction mini-engine, add support for stocks, and spiff + up the help menus. This was version 1.0 as of January 1998. Since + then, for version 1.1, the engine was expanded & refined, and the + register window code completely redesigned and made mostly + Motif-(and GUI-)independent. Did some prototype OFX work. + +Jeremy Collins publicized the GnoMoney project + widely and broadly, and then changed its name to GnuCash. Jeremy + created the gnucash.org web site, registered the domain, got the + initial GTK/gnome code working. + +Rob Browning abused everyone for not using perl, + and then added guile/scheme support. Rob maintains the build + infrastructure, is handling the whole guile/perl extension language + thing, and is dealing with configuration & configurability. Fixes & Patches: ----------------