From 918bf778d436871e7ea9e2b81233df62b38162cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linas Vepstas Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 04:04:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updates of status git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@840 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd --- Docs/projects.html | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Docs/projects.html b/Docs/projects.html index 5f60bc5c5d..40038a0182 100644 --- a/Docs/projects.html +++ b/Docs/projects.html @@ -12,7 +12,8 @@

GnuCash (formerly X-Accountant) Project Goals

-GnuCash (previously known as X-Accountant) is a personal finance +GnuCash +(previously known as X-Accountant) is a personal finance accounting application. The project goals are to create a world-class GPL'ed Open Source personal financial application for GNU/Linux and other Unix's. The project is the result of a merger @@ -48,6 +49,10 @@ large ones shall turn into a multitude of small ones.

News

+
April 1998 +
The domain "gnucash.org" has been registered; web site is up. +

+

10 April 1998
Work on OFX support, and user-prefrences, has begun in earnest.

@@ -141,8 +146,21 @@ architectural goals. windows much simpler and easier.

Current Status: the latest alpha-development releases (version - 1.1.x) contain such an object. Its currently motif-based, but - should be easily portable to Qt, GTK, curses. + 1.1.x) contain such an object. +

    +
  • Currently Motif-based +
  • GTK port is read-only +
  • No Qt port yet +
  • the simple single-account ledgers (incl. stock ledgers) seem + to be working correctly, but no heavy testing yet. +
  • The multiple-account ledger is ery broken. +
  • The multi-split ledger is still unimplemented. Since I know + how this should work, I hope to work on it soon. +
  • read-only GTK version published, thanks to Rob Browning. + (other comments above are for motif version). +
  • query for date range completely missing. +
  • No curses version yet. +

Extension Language Support @@ -208,10 +226,21 @@ architectural goals. their own library, should be created. Routines to help make the engine more transaction-processing oriented should be added.

- Current Status: The basic engine has been detangled from - the GUI elements, as of version 1.1.4. Binary file i/o still - remains tangled. Transaction processing constructs are present, but - do nothing and are not enforced. + Current Status: +

    +
  • The basic engine has been detangled from + the GUI elements, as of version 1.1.4. +
  • Binary file i/o still remains tangled. +
  • prototype for transaction logging in place +
  • backup files automatically created & timestamped. +
  • BeginEdit()/CommitEdit() routines mostly in place, + These "Transaction processing constructs" + should simplify creation of an SQL back end. +
  • Engine seems to be working correctly, but no heavy testing yet. +
  • Support for alternate sort orders, or query for subset of + all transactions completely missing. +
+

OFX support @@ -222,8 +251,19 @@ architectural goals. The OFX DTD's are included in the 1.1 distributions. See OFX HomePage for details.

- Status:Work on an OFX DTD parser has begun. - Simple scripts have been run past OFX servers. + Status: +

    +
  • Work on an OFX DTD parser has begun. headers generated + correctly. Constrcutors generated almost correctly. +
  • Simple scripts have been run against real-live OFX servers. +
+

+ +

Budgeting +
Ability to handle budgeted future transactions. +

+ Status: + A design doc has been started.

@@ -335,6 +375,10 @@ immediately, independent of the major goals. still be possible to specify the fees, the transfer, and other details from a single window.

+ Status: Some basic reorganization of register was done to + support mixed multi-line split display. However, the actual + display of such things remaions unimplemented. +

User Preferences
Create menu system & file format for manipulating user @@ -402,7 +446,8 @@ immediately, independent of the major goals.

Quicken(TM) Export -
Ability to export Quicken QIF files. +
Ability to export Quicken QIF files. Quicken import is implemented + and mostly works.

Tab-delimited ASCII file format @@ -593,7 +638,7 @@ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@im2.lcs.mit.edu:/im/magnus/cvsroot get watermark
-Draft version 0.21 -- April 1998
+Draft version 0.22 -- April 1998
Linas Vepstas linas@linas.org
Robin Clark rclark@hmc.edu