GnuCash 1.9.0 Released

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."

Comments

The Kot

[msbsod]

Here is a little example from the Gnucash source code:

char *
libgncmod_tax_us_LTX_gnc_module_path(void) {
#ifdef LOCALE_SPECIFIC_TAX
const char *thislocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL);
if (strncmp(thislocale, "de_DE", 5) == 0)
return g_strdup("gnucash/tax/de_DE");
else
#endif
return g_strdup("gnucash/tax/us");
}

In plain English, this means if you know only your little backyard, then there is just US. Otherwise your world may include Germany, and the rest is, of course, US. Now, some people may find this funny. Others might cry. I am just confused. How can they write such code? It should read if Germany ... else if US ... else if ... else UNKNOWN, STOP! (or use perhaps a switch/case/default statement).

The last time I put numbers like the shown 5 into code was almost three decades ago in a Basic program. I have seen much better GNU software and hope someone removes the word GNU from this project's name.

No offense, but I thought financial planning software should comply with higher standards.

Re:GNUCash Ported Elsewhere?

[wik]

>I'm not sure how many extraneous libraries GnuCash 1.9 relies on...

If it's anything like the 1.8 version, it relies on at piles of esoteric packages. Why this program has significant portions written in scheme (of all things!), I will never understand.

I use the program, but it requires extraordinary care and maintenance. There was an issue with debian package dependencies sometime last year which completely broke gnucash for weeks. It's simply poor software design. Now I run it within a vmware player image which never gets updated, so I can be sure that it'll start tomorrow.