On 20 Nov 1999 14:46:51 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>All you need to do is mark the time at which an account was last
>saved. Next time you load it into GnuCash, it processes all the
>'timed' transactions that occurred between then and "now". You really
>don't need (or want) asynchronous events here. "Cron" and "at" are
>superfluous. It's not like we need GnuCash to start up on its own and
>tell us a bill is due. ;)
Actually, one of the things I did with CBB way back when was to build a
script called "txn" that could be scheduled to add transactions at any
desired point in time.
Having the ability to "start GnuCash up on its own" to do things is most
*certainly* a reasonable idea; this is particularly true if you look at
the collection of stock prices.
'Twould be nice to be able to nudge GnuCash and have it go off to web
sites to collect prices, even if nothing else is running...
>I hope we're not over-engineering a solution to what (to me) is a set
>of simple problems: Installment Loans and Depreciation.
These problems are distinctly *not* simple problems, when you try
to map them onto transactions in a robust way...
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