windoze version?

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Nov 22 09:18:20 EST 2004



In message <sjm7joega4j.fsf at dogbert.ihtfp.org>, Derek Atkins writes:
>Nils Jeppe <nils at pandemonium.de> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>>> This is due to the way MDI works.  Once we move away from MDI to
>>> something else then we _may_ have a chance to solidify the
>>> configuration into fewer files.  OTOH we may wind up using gconf,
>>> which means the data gets stored into MORE locations.
>>
>> Hmmm, just this user's feedback - I'd really prefer if gnucash data became
>> more easily portable. Storing financial data on a notebook is not the best
>> idea, so I'll end up hacking something up like maybe putting the stuff on
>> a usb stick or some kind of memory card (if you steal that, you can easily
>> take my credit card at the same time). Just an idea, haven't thought it
>> through yet. Anyway the point is, if I have to dig the data out of a dozen
>> locations, maybe parse configfiles or binary db files, then that job gets
>> kinda tough :-)
>
>The DATA is easily portable.  You can easily share the financial data
>across as many machines that you want.  There's no problem doing that
>today.  It's the report configuration that is not easily portable, and
>frankly I dont care about that being very portable.  It's not hard to
>rebuild your reports.

Would it make sense to implement some sort of 'report config'
export/import functionallity?  Just a random thought.

>
>> - Nils
>
>-derek
>
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