Scheduled transactions by day of the month?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Oct 13 08:05:11 EDT 2008
Hi,
Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> writes:
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Then why not donate the code for inclusion into GnuCash proper?
>> Or is it not something that COULD be integrated and shared?
>
> Finance apps by and large are still mired in the old standalone model
> of application development, where data is self contained, but
> duplicated and often contradicted by data in other systems.
>
> With systems being networked, it no longer makes sense to have one
> monolithic system that tries to do everything in a single package.
>
> What I am keen to see is a set of standard data representations (XML?)
> that can be used to pass business forms like invoices and payments
> around, a bit like you can with RSS and Atom.
>
> The problem then distills down to getting data into and out of gnucash
> in a supported way, at which point people could develop apps to do
> pretty much anything with the data involved, from making pretty
> invoices, to distributing those invoices, to making online gateways to
> the information.
Sounds like you want GnuE.
Enjoy!
> Regards,
> Graham
-derek
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