On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:19:30 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as John F Meinel Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Once again I'm here to ask a question for freecoins, the palm record > keeping software (http://freecoins.sourceforge.net)... > Someone believed that gnucash supported a SQL backend instead of using > an XML file. Is that true? The reason is that the author and lead > developer of freecoins would like to see it connected with a SQL db as a > generic conduit. And then have gnucash connect to the same db. > So were they right? Or is that an old, unused feature that isn't > supported anymore? > I believe his thought was that since it is already in database format > (palm db), it is easier to convert it to another database format, then > to try and go back to QIF's or something like that. > John
What do you understand "database format" to mean? The way I usually understand it as is as "something totally irrelevant that the DBMS takes care of so that I don't need to give a rip about it." At any rate, the SQL back end does function, at least marginally. It is not well-maintained, so it doesn't work well at this point. And it is totally irrelevant that FreeCoins uses "a database" and that GnuCash can use "a database;" that does nothing to establish that it will be easy to transfer data back and forth... -- (concatenate 'string "chris" "@cbbrowne.com") http://cbbrowne.com/info/finances.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #38. "If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
