MoneyDance vs GNUcash

[Kurt Wall]

In a 2.3K blaze of typing glory, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> 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? ;)

Well, I'm mostly being stubborn. :-) 

It's not about easy, anyway. I do run pre-compiled apps. Just not GNUCash.
I have other projects that interest me more than spending
<reverb>NiNe HoUrS</reverb> building and compiling the supporting cast
for an application.

> > It wasn't irrelevant to me.
> 
> Well, that comment was fully intended to be tongue-in-cheek. :(

Noted. As I said, I'm simply being stubborn for no reason other than
that it's Tuesday night.

> 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...

http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=1858

> <sig-snippet>
> Ah say, son, you're about as sharp as a bowlin' ball.
> </sig-snippet>
> Hey, I resemble that remark...

Foghorn Leghorn is my man.

Kurt
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