OFX approaches and QIF Import

[Bill Gribble]

On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 03:54, Scott Drennan wrote:
> Nor do I, for much the same reason, so working from 1.6.4 seems
> reasonable, since what we'd be doing would be limited to the QIF import
> module for now.

I don't think it's a good idea to start from the 1.6.X qif import
module.  That code is far too specific to QIF to be generalized in a
useful way.  IMO it would be better and easier to completely start from
scratch, possibly reusing some of the duplicate transaction detection
code which is not QIF specific anyway. 

OTOH, the unfinished replacement for the 1.6.X QIF importer is in the
1.7 tree and would probably be a better starting place than scratch. It
takes a very different approach to the import process that makes it more
amenable to pluggable front ends.  It's in the
src/import-export/qif-io-core directory of the CVS source tree.  The
main thing that's unfinished about it is that there's no GUI yet.   

> Derek, I'll contact you off-list to brainstorm further... once we have
> something reasonable we can bring it back to the list for comments.

Please do.  I'd be interested in seeing where you are going with this. 

b.g.