gnucash ideas - (fwd)

[jholland@gears.linuxave.net]

Hello - I just discovered gnucash which seems pretty cool!
I'd like to offer any help I can to the effort but my knowledge of
programming is more in the applications language level - like Python,
Perl, etc. I've done some C though and I'd be happy to do more.

Anyway I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the following:

1. Recent Linux Journal article implies gnucash is hard to install and
doesn't do well with .QIF files.
My experience on FreeBSD was that it was a simple "make install" to
install. Perhaps Linux IS worse, I don't know.
Also my Quicken data came across pretty well - so far I discovered only
one problem - split transactions get truncated to one of the split values.
So maybe a letter to the LJ is in order.

2. This program could use more reports! I'll admit I haven't even looked
at the docs on adding stuff yet but this is an area of some weakness in my
opinion.

3. Perhaps a budget subsystem that tied to reports would be good. I would
miss that quite a bit in mograting from Quicken.

4. It would be nice if the existing reports esp transaction could export
to a tab-delimited file or some other format that can be read by gnumeric.


I see by a brief look at the source that the reports are all done in
scheme. I've just been starting to learn that language. I'll have to get
to work! Is "The little Schemer" an alright intro? It seems pretty
simple-minded in a way.

      
John Holland
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