On Apr 5, 2012, at 5:02 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Muslim Chochlov wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The good news are that one student (Ngewi Fet) has submitted his proposal >> for mobile application. >> And AFAIK another one (Atul) is going to submit as well. >> The bad news are that Ngewi's proposal doesn't seem to make it through. >> Apart from basic information about the application >> he is going to develop there is nothing that can make him stand out of the >> crowd of other participants. I don't know how many slots Gnome will receive >> but they already have 5-6 very strong proposals and it would be extremely >> hard for Ngewi to compete with them. Currently I would rate him 2-3 out of 5 >> and I have to admit I expected more from him. >> You could find his application here [1] >> >> [1] >> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/ngewif/1 > > > Muslim, > > You wrote on your comment to Ngewi's proposal: >> Also it is very important that you understand how import/export in GnuCash >> works and QIF file format. Because this is the main purpose of the GnuCash >> mobile application. > > You know that there is no export from Gnucash, right? The export menu items > write a chart of accounts to an empty Gnucash file or, on reports, write out > the HTML from the report to file.
Trunk has a CSV transaction export. I haven't tried a round trip yet, but the transactions seem to be there in the export file. And you do have to do one category at a time (Income/expense/asset/liability). > > If Ngewi's (or Atul's, if he gets around to writing a proposal) app is to get > information from Gnucash I think that the only option is for it to parse the > XML data file. > > On a related note, Marina Zhurakhinskaya (one of the Gnome admins) is > commenting on all proposals that don't have a pointer to an existing > contribution. Do either Atul or Ngewi have the C experience to knock out a > couple of bugs? It's not really germane to their proposals, because those > will be written in Java, but it seems to be a Gnome GSoC requirement. > > Regards, > John Ralls > Dave -- David Reiser [email protected] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
