On 2004-07-21 12:47:23 +0100 Ben Francis lists@hippygeek.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone tried out GnuCash? (http://www.gnucash.org/) I saw it on a banner ad somewhere...
Yes. I use GnuCash to track the AFFS accounts at http://www.affs.org.uk/~mjr/treasury/ - I'm using a version which means that I have to keep Gnome 1.x (1.4?) and GTK+ 1.x around, as well as collecting a lot of other library dependencies. Apart from that, it's pretty nice and I've not spotted it making errors. Sometimes its manner can be a little perplexing, until you read the guides yet again. I'm pretty keen on it because of the scheme extensibility, but I've not used that in anger yet.
For other accounts, I use a much simpler web+postgresql journal using a scheme program that I wrote myself and haven't packaged for release yet. One feature there is the inability to edit committed transactions: instead, you post a correction.
I used SQL-Ledger in the past, but it didn't quite fit UK practices and its perl was too awkward for me to adapt (and I've used perl for many years).