MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 9:51 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 1.4K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
<snip>
> > 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.
>

OK. Granted, more than a "few." But if you have gnumeric installed (much 
better for spreadsheets than OOo, IMO), you probly have (or should have) 
guppi, and pretty much all of gnome that you'd need. That leaves guile, slib, 
and g-wrap. While not a download it and run it scenario for you, it certainly 
wouldn't be all that painful. Heck, you *do* run Slackware, you don't really 
want things easy, do you? ;)

> > 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.
>

Well, that comment was fully intended to be tongue-in-cheek. :(
FWIW, gnucash imports QIF. It doesn't export QIF (or anything,) though. 
There's been talk off and on about adding that, but the main developers 
aren't real interested in supporting it. While QIF is supposedly a "standard" 
file format, there are a great many differences in its implementation. If 
they add support for exporting data, it will likely be in OFX format. In the 
opinion of the gnucash developers, OFX is a far better standard for 
importing/exporting financial data.
http://www.ofx.net/ofx/default.asp

BTW, a quick google for "gnucash slackware" provided this promising link:
http://rjmarq.org/gnucash.html

I highly recommend you try gnucash, really...

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Hey, I resemble that remark...

Tim

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