QIF Importer

[Charles Day]

On Jan 3, 2008 6:03 PM, Ian Lewis <ianmlewis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Charles,
>
> You mentioned in some other e-mails that you were working on fixing some
> problems with the QIF importer. What exactly are you working on? I'm looking
> at trying to improve the importer myself and would like to coordinate any
> changes in an effective way. That said, I'm new to coding Gnucash haven't
> really thought much about the scheme part yet and was more looking at fixing
> bugs in the import druid first, but eventually turn to the import itself
> with the eventual (and lofty) goal of rewriting the QIF import to use the
> generic import code that the OFX and other imports are using.
>
> Ian
>


Ian,

The only things I'm looking at so far are 100% in Scheme, so anything you do
with the GUI or C shouldn't clash with what I'm doing. Even if you dig into
the Scheme code, you probably won't conflict with me unless you are working
on qif-to-gnc.scm and more specifically on the split matching/marking bits.
At the moment I'm looking at bug
114724<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114724>,
bug 506810 <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506810>, and another
bug in the Scheme code (again with split matching/marking) that I haven't
reported yet. I know absolutely nothing about the generic import code and I
don't predict working on it at all in the immediate future, but who knows...

I've aimed for small fixes so far. If a big change is needed then maybe it
would be more productive to work on the generic importer and make it happen
there. I don't really have a sense for this at present.

So go for it!

Charles