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

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:55:09PM +0100, Marcus Wolschon wrote:
> 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.

I had not heard of JGnucashLib.  I just looked it up.  That certainly 
makes a difference.

-- hendrik