GnuCash Reports

[Derek Atkins]

Well, the --disable-guppi is a leftover from the pre-1.6 dev tree when
guppi was added but before the full gnome-1.4 switch.  I was still on
a gnome-1.2 tree and had no way of building guppi, so I added the
--disable-guppi switch for people like me.  Now that guppi practicaly
comes with the OSes (and we're not requiring bleeding-edge libraries
to build) I think the option can just be removed..  Unless you really
see value in the option.  It's original purpose is no more.

-derek

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> From the description it reads as if the author compiled GnuCash himself (as 
> opposed to Kapital, for which he got the rpm, and moneydance, which is java). 
> I would guess that something went wrong during his Guppi installation so that 
> ./configure of gnucash ended up compiling without Guppi -- but, looking into 
> configure.in, it seems this is only possible if the user explicitly specified 
> --disable-guppi. I wonder whether we should rename the --disable-guppi option 
> into --disable-guppi-and-yes-i-dont-want-graphics...
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Samstag, 31. Mai 2003 03:40, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just read your article about financial applications at
> > http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8217/ur0305l/ and while the
> > summaries are wonderful there is one glaring error.  Under the GnuCash
> >
> > description you say:
> > > Speaking of reports, GnuCash has many and they are very flexible, but
> > > without any fancy pie and bar charts. This is strictly text.
> >
> > This is unfortunately completely false.  There are a number of
> > graphical reports which display pretty pictures in brilliant colors.
> > Under the Reports -> Assets & Liabilies you can find an Asset
> > Barchart, Asset Piechart, Liability Barchart, Liability Piechart, Net
> > Worth Barchart, and Price scatterplot.  Under Reports -> Income &
> > Expense you can find an Expense Barchart, Expense Piechart, Income
> > Barchart, and Income Piechart.
> >
> > So, I'm wondering why you make the claim you did, as these reports are
> > clearly in the list of reports on the main window.
> >
> > Anyways, thanks for the review!
> >
> > -derek, for the GnuCash development team.
> 

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