GnuCash page on GO site

Charles Goodwin charlie at xwt.org
Thu Feb 26 08:06:34 CST 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:13, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> My gut feel is that libgda offers the wrong abstractions. 
> Although gnucash data can be (is) represented as SQL, that's 
> the wrong place to work.  There's a lot of pulling things together
> that must happen before the data is reportable.  For example,
> computing account balances can be quite complicated; its not a
> simple sql query or a simple table lookup.

Call me stupid but isn't libgda a data abstraction layer?  Does the data
initially have to be SQL or can it not be some arbitrary format which
libgda supports?  Could this be as easy as adding GnuCash-data-support
to libgda?
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <charlie at xwt.org>
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