"Tools > Close Book" doesn't seem to do what I want, i.e., to shrink gnucash file by rolling up transactions

[Marcus Wolschon]

2008/11/26, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>:
>> I can build such a tool in a few hours in Java  as that's what I'm used to
>> do.
>> Then you are free to write it again in C or Python or whatever.
>
> I'd be happy to use it whatever language it's written in.
>
> It's just that the gnucash developers seem to be talking of migrating
> from XML to a data base, and that would render an XML-based tool less
> useful.

Who says that JGnucashLib is an XML-based tool?
It already has a database-backend that I'll
adapt to support whatever final schema the gnucash-dev -people
come up with for their first stable version that uses databases.

Marcus