The Gnucash database?
Josh Sled
jsled at asynchronous.org
Mon Jul 19 14:19:02 EDT 2004
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 13:58, blfs at comcast.net wrote:
> If you cant query the data easily loaded into the Gnucash
> program without using the Gnucash interface that is a
> problem. I have installed the program and read a little about
GnuCash is roughly two parts:
* An Engine
* A GUI
Somewhere in the middle is a lot of supporting code for dealing with the
backend data stores, OFX/QIF-format data importing, business objects,
scheduled transactions, &c.
> it, but I am really stuck on this point that it cannot import
> a plain flat text file. I dont understand this.
Why would you expect gnucash to be able to understand arbritrary
data-formats such as your plain/flat text file?
You are welcome to contribute an interface and the supporting code which
would allow this import and format-mapping into gnucash concepts.
> Further, if Gnucash is a financial program it is a database no
> matter how you want to define database this type of program
> has to be one. It is impossible to have a financial program
> that is not a database.
*sigh* It's not a database in the sense that _anyone_else_ would use
that word...
I guess it could be called a data-processing engine over a base of
data. If you want to call that a database, then fine. But you're just
going to be hard to talk to.
...jsled
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