MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.4K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 December 2003 8:59 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> > In a 1.3K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 7:55 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall
> > > wrote:
> >
> > [snippage]
> >
> > > > GNUCash is free, but a quick look at the dependencies if you don't
> > > > have GNOME 1.4 installed makes easy for me to say "Nice program, but
> > > > no thanks."
> > >
> > > It's not all that hard to install on a modern distro. If you have any
> > > Gnome 1.4 apps installed, it shouldn't be hard at all. But in a few
> > > months, the gnome 2 port will be done.
> > > Hell, with Fedora Core 1 it was as easy as 'sudo yum install gnucash'.
> >
> > No hats here.
> >
> > $ cat /etc/slackware-version
> > Slackware 9.1.0
> >
> 
> Ahh yes, Slackware bigot. I'm well aware...

I prefer to think of it as zealotry, not bigotry.

> FWIW, I'm a gnucash bigot :-)
> 
> > And I didn't install GNOME.
> 
> Don't need gnome, just the libs ;-)

Umm, "The only dependencies beyond a standard Gnome 1.4 installation are 
Guppi, Guile, slib and G-Wrap." For complete details, 
http://www.gnucash.org/en/required.phtml makes it look like more than a
"few" other things.

> Not to mention glade, and a few other goodies.
> 
> Oh, and I forgot to mention, that Moneydance will imprt QIF files exported 
> from MS Money is irrelevant. Have never used MS Money in my life...

It wasn't irrelevant to me.

Kurt
-- 
Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball.