list of github projects related to gnucash

[Sébastien de Menten]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Wm <wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:06:03 <CAB2pxDsieQkZ1=-PwirysjD9pdMB
> v6GmM9X2UQ9w4OUhNg6X8Q 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.
>
> indeed, the 12 months is not always meaningful...


> 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.
>
> thanks for this info.


> 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)
>
It could be indeed a better format to do bulk edit of transaction. I have
adapted MatzeB's script to piecash (it required almost no changes). I could
add an "import from ledger-cli" afterwards.


> 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.
>
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> Wm...
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