list of github projects related to gnucash

[Wm]

Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:06:03 
<CAB2pxDsieQkZ1=-PwirysjD9pdMBv6GmM9X2UQ9w4OUhNg6X8Q at mail.gmail.com> 
Sébastien de Menten <sdementen at gmail.com>

>If you are interested, here is a list of all github projects related to
>gnucash in some way (in the sense they come up on github if you search
>"gnucash" ...):
>http://piecash.readthedocs.org/en/latest/doc/github_links.html

Fascinating stuff, thanks for that.

As an aside I'm not sure 12 months is a good measure of age in this 
case.  Sensibly the age should be measured in terms of gnc changing file 
formats with the milestones being

1) when did gnc last change XML format, if the project uses that

2) when did gnc begin to offer SQL backend storage (excluding the 
unreliable prototypes), if the project uses that

I'm not suggesting you do any work, just pointing something out that an 
observer might want to be aware of, for example, a budgeting tool that 
can read gnc XML files might be useful even if it is a few years old.

If you want to expand things even more consider that more than one of 
the projects write gnc data into ledger-cli and friends compatible (to 
varying degrees) text files and some of the ledger-cli and friends read 
gnc files directly.

I find the last interesting for three reasons

1) if I can't find the exact report I want I know I can do stuff with it 
in the ledger-cli family format so I pull my data out (I use a slightly 
modified version of MatzeB's work) and do stuff, write a report, 
whatever

2) ledger-cli is a much more sensible format than QIF/OFX/QFX/CSV/etc 
for importing and exporting accounting and finance related data because 
it can encompass an entire set of information (a book, if you like) 
rather than trying to define a transaction.  I see realistic round trip 
export / import consistency there (something I think should be close to 
your heart)

3) a number of the ledger-cli and friends projects already read the text 
data and write it to an sql backend (see where this is going?) where it 
can (surprise!) be used by any tool you want to get your reports in your 
browser, spreadsheet, etc.

This all melds neatly with the gnc long term way of reporting and 
hopefully where you are heading with your project if you see it as a 
long term project rather than solving an immediate or personal problem.

-- 
Wm...