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GnuCash 1.9.0 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the congratulations-to-all dept.

Grendel Drago writes "The GnuCash team have released GnuCash 1.9.0. After literally years of waiting, GnuCash is now a GTK2 application. The current version is unstable, and testers are needed."

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  1. Years of waiting... by gameboyhippo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who's been waiting? I liked the application the way it is. With something as important as finacial tracking, there's no way I'd want to test it. I don't need a pretty ui to tell me I'm broke.

  2. Re:Where I come from it's called a failure... by symbolic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Come on... they've just done a major conversion, and now it's testing time. OF COURSE it's going to crash. Why not channel your criticism into more constructive uses of your time and help with the testing?

  3. Re:KMyMoney by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I don't want to drag along all the KDE cruft just to run a money management app.

    Good point. A well-written money management app would implement its own widget toolkit, graphing engine, database backend, network stack, C library, and floating point handler. After all, why leverage the work of thousands of others when you can re-write it all, poorly, yourself?

    Don't be a jackass. No reasonable size application is written from scratch anymore. The KMyMoney folks decided to use the KDE framework, just like the GnuCash group used all the "Gnome cruft" instead. If you want something totally minimal, perhaps I could introduce you to vi, bc, and grep. Wait - scratch that - bc depends on ncurses and readline. It may not be "pure" enough for someone of your discriminating tastes.

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?