Financial library

[Phillip Shelton]

As gnucash is in C, should we look at seeing if it is ok to rewrite in C or
just run with the gnumeric date functions?

Or add another dependency? :-\

Phill

> -----Original Message-----
> IMHO date  functions are  not such  a big  deal.  Believe  me, Excel
> provides excellent set of date functions - and if gnumeric can match
> them, we'll be in good shape.  Even such requirements as "3rd Friday
> of the  month" can be done  relatively easy with Excel.   Excel also
> lets you to easily specify a locale-specific set of holidays.
>
> To my knowledge, there're two excellent sets of date implementations
> available:
>
> 1) OSE C++ library
> 2) Date::Manip Perl module - it's so complete, I'd call it excessive