[GSoC] Re: GSOC2011 Cutecash

[Christian Stimming]

Dear Lin Di,

thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. 
As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN 
and build it yourself on some Linux/Unix computer, see 
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building

Even though it is possible to develop the cutecash code on Windows/Visual 
Studio, we strongly suggest you should first set up a Linux build so that you 
see how the "normal" build of the developers will go along. You can install a 
Linux virtual machine on your windows computer just for this testing part.

Next, please build gnucash (indeed: the original gnucash) from SVN using the 
gcc/mingw compile system on your windows computer. Follow the instructions 
from http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows to do that.

Finally, you can build cutecash using Visual Studio as well, following the 
instructions from http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash 
and see whether you can add enough features so that it's a "lightweight, easy 
& fast" data entry possibility in addition to the normal gnucash program. 

Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page http://gnucash.uservoice.com are 
useful suggestions for a project in terms of user requirements.

Best Regards,

Christian

Am Freitag, 25. März 2011 schrieb Lin Di:
> Basic Information
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> Student name: Lin Di
> Location (Home town, state, country): Singapore
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> Contact Information
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> Email: confusemeplz at gmail.com
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> Background/Programming Information
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> What programming experience do you have so far (languages, operating
> systems, compilers)?
> I have taken courses on C and C++ programming language, mainly on data
> structure and algorithm.
> 
> Have you worked on programming project(s) before, and which one(s)?
> Yest. currently I am working on a software engineering project that
> develops a new bus fare calculation and deduction system.
> 
> What project in GnuCash would you like to work on?
> I would like to work on Cutecash: An alternative GUI.
> 
> How do you propose to solve the problem(s) posed in the project you'd
> like to work on?
> I would like to re-write the GUI with Microsoft Visual Studio in C++.
> 
> Have you ever built an open source package from source?
> Not really. But I am very appreciated of the idea of open source.
> 
> Have you ever built GnuCash from source?
> Not really. But I am willing to learn new things from GnuCash.
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