[ale] GnuCash (Was: Re: [OT] Home PBX?)

[mike at trausch.us]

On 07/31/2012 02:39 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I had to laugh at this response.  Many of you know that Derek has been 
> involved in the gnucash project for a long time.  For some reason that's 
> been lost to me in my advanced years, I had to compile gnucash from 
> source once.   It is perhaps the most complex compile I've ever done 
> with dozens of dependencies and requirements.

Hey!  I love that program!  :-D

You should use Gentoo.  Abstracts the build process away from you.  ;-)

That said, I really need to replace it with something a little less...
single-user-ish.  I am using it only as a start for my business, until I
have had the time to actually implement a system that is concurrently
multiuser and Web-based.  Love it for things where I'm the only person
ever likely to work on it at the same time.  Hate the fact that it
doesn't do concurrent multiuser access, though, even on SQL databases...
see http://is.gd/2GZ56H (GnuCash wiki) for why that is (at least for now...)

If GC were to become a concurrent multiuser application, I'd probably
simply write my other software to integrate with it, instead of
reimplementing the things I need piecemeal, as time permits.

I might even consider helping to add CMU access to GC, if the project
has that as a goal at all (not sure about that even), if I manage to get
to the point where I can stop to work on such a thing.  Though at the
moment, that's a pretty big "if".

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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