[GNC] Payroll add-on, module, software?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 7/25/2018 8:20 PM, John Ralls wrote:

> GnuCash is actually very modular (perhaps a little too much, there are 
> parts of it that are modules and probably shouldn't be). I wouldn't 
> say it's easy, nothing in programming GnuCash seems to be easy, but 
> it's possible for a third party developer to create a payroll module 
> for their jurisdiction and for users in that jurisdiction to add it to 
> their GnuCash installations. But in 20 years no third party developer 
> has ever expressed any interest in creating a GnuCash plugin. Regards, 
> John Ralls 

"Plug ins" (feeds) have TWO parts. Sender and receiver. As I understand 
the issues (decades of experience in software design) there are TWO 
parts to a "plug", can think of as male (sender) and female) receiver. 
It is the receiver that needs to be responsible for input editing of 
feeds and THAT is a good sized project all by itself << do not accept a 
feed that will not work, how to report this to sender, etc. >>

Saying that no third party has expressed interest in writing something 
that would send a feed to gnucash ignores that gnucash does not have the 
capability of (properly) dealing with batch feeds.

Michael

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