The Gnucash database?

[jdebert]

blfs wrote:
> 
> First I know next to nothing about Gnucash, but I 
> understand this subject.  
> 

How about understanding gnucash, then?

Use the source, Luke!

> I have read the replys and now I am confused about
> another point.  Why isnt Gnucash based on an SQL 
> database?  I would also think the design should be
> modular so the database engine is seperate from the
> program.
> 

Because that's the way it is.

IIRC this has been beaten to death months ago, if not years ago.

There are other ways to do what you seem to want, wrt importing data.

I imported years of ascii capture logs of online banking sessions into 
gnucash before the bank went to web banking.

I edited the text files and reformatted them for import to gnumeric and 
quattro pro and even excel then imported them into gnucash or used a 
filter to convert them to QIF. I think there is still some old excel 
macro or script around somewhere to convert excel files to qif and back.

There may no longer be any direct import tools but if you dig around you 
may find some stuff to do intermediate conversions. You may even be able 
to feed stuff through quicken to get the qif files to import.

Perhaps you'll even find the old tools that do what you want. Perhaps 
even older versions of gnucash would be useful.

Look around. Do some searches. Try freshmeat, sourceforge, rpmfind, 
tucows and the linux archive sites like tsx-11, etc.

Maybe hire someone to do what you want.

If you want things to be different, no one is going to keep you from 
rolling your own accounting software.

I strongly doubt that you are going to persuade the maintainers to 
change things.

BTW, there are tools capable of exporting gnucash's xml files to other 
formats. You need only look for them.

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