aqbanking5 support of gnucash

[John Ralls]

On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:08 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Martin Preuss <martin at aqbanking.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Freitag 13 August 2010, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I'm curious:  Don't we still support AqB-3?  My Fedora-12 system has:
>>> 
>>> aqbanking-3.8.2-2.fc12.x86_64
>>> aqbanking-devel-3.8.2-2.fc12.x86_64
>>> 
>>> So I think we need to support at least AqB 3, 4, and 5...
>> [...]
>> 
>> AqBanking 3 is ancient... AqBanking3 had very limited support for PIN/TAN-HBCI 
>> (which unfortunately is very much used nowadays).
>> 
>> So many banks can't be connected to with AqBanking3 which would make it 
>> necessary at least for German users (which I guess is the majority of the 
>> AqBanking users) to upgrade at least to AqBanking4.
> 
> I realize it is ancient, however some relatively modern Linux
> distributions (like Fedora 12, which is only 6 months old) still
> distribute it, so I think we need to continue to support it.
> 
> So I think GnuCash 2.4 needs to support AqB 3, 4, and 5.
> 

I think you have that backward. The distros provide aqbanking because Gnucash and KMyMoney require it. If we don't drive them to upgrade, they won't.

Regards,
John Ralls