finance software

[Derek Neighbors]

Ted Gould wrote:

> Dragos Neagu wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for something to help me take care of my personal
>> finances.  I've used gnucash before but on ubuntu it wants like 45
>> other packages :-p  What do you guys use/recommend?
>
>
> I use GNUCash and just download the 45 packages :(  It seems like
> GNUCash doesn't have a good development methodology overall (too many
> dependencies, too many custom widgets), but I haven't found anything
> better.  I'd love to have a GTK+ 2 piece of financial software that was
> much cleaner.  I keep hoping that GNUCash will morph into that, but
> they're already on GTK+ 2.8 and GNUCash still hasn't made the switch.
>
I think they are close to having a gtk2.x version.  In fact, I think it 
is in Debian experimental.  They have done a lot of code cleanup, but 
the dependency hell still exists.  I don't see much hope of that 
improving.  The developers are well... How do you say it politely.... 
Set in their ways?  It is by far the most functional and reliable out 
there that I have found, but has a hard time attracting developers 
because it is written in C with a healthy dose of scheme.  I don't like 
working on C (much less scheme) when I am getting paid, so you can 
forget about it for volunteer work.  I suspect I am not the only one in 
that boat.  Developers that like to code in C in their spare time, seem 
to have little problem compiling 45 packages to do a build on a piece of 
software.  Thus, you won't see it go away.  As to them it isn't a 
problem. :)

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Derek "mini rant" Neighbors