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gAcc README

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

gAcc is a program intended to manage one's bank accounts. It provides basic functions such as :

having multiple accounts in a wallet file
user readable configuration file & wallets files
add / remove any account from the file (happily ;-) )
add / remove any operation from any account (idem :) )
modify the category list
point or un-point operations
display intermediate balance for each operation
re-edit operations
re-edit accounts
internationalisation (not yet finished. volunteers ?) and locale formats
etc...

Some other functions need to be implemented for better use. See the TODO file to know what they are.

Licence is provided in the COPYING file.

Please read the BUGS file !

Installing gAcc

To install gAcc you need to have :

GTK+ > 1.2.2
gcc (of course)
make ( ;-) )
enough disk space (approx 1Mo :)) with your own wallet files)
1. Create Makefile and other stuff.

./configure

Read INSTALL for guidelines on configure.

2. Edit the configuration file to suit your own configuration (you should

not need to do this).

vi src/config.h

3. Compile gAcc :

make

4. Install gAcc :

make install
or
su -c "make install"

Before installing you can test it by simply type ./src/gAcc and see what it gives. The only files created are in the configuration directory (default=~/.gAcc).

There is a category example in the etc/ directory which will be installed as a system wide default.

Configure options

To list options, just type :

./configure --help

gAcc history

I began the gAcc creation about 4 years ago (we are now in 2000). By this time I was using Windows and Linux on my computer and I didn't find any bank accounts management program under Linux. I just finished 2 programs with Motif : a UNIX/DOS text files converter and an address book with dialing capabilities.
I had begun to write a little bit of code with motif for a program like gAcc when I meet Mr. freshmeat :) Then I discovered xacc. A very good program (from which I took the look). I used it by the time I had a Slackware, and when I moved to a debian I wanted to use its GTK+ version Gnucash. But it always got down at compile time and I didn't want to wait for it to work. So I took Moneydance in order to wait.
Last summer, I had enough with Moneydance so I decided to get a look at what I had done before on such a program and I rewrite a cleaner version starting only with data structures that where simple, clear, logical and easily modifiable. Of course I choose the GTK+ toolkit. But I wanted to create something that would be the same whatever the toolkit may be so I separated the lists management from the display as much as possible (even if it was not as easy as predicted ;-) ). Text and QT interfaces will come one day, but for the moment I'm trying to get finished the GTK+ version.
As I didn't know nothing about accounts management, I based my program on the simplier and obvious functions one could need (add/delete/calculate/clear/etc.) Then I began to communicate with Michel Verdier and he showed me a new way I hadn't thought to : modularity ! Indeed the simplier a program is, the more it would be used, but a too much simplier program is also a program that miss functionnalities... That's where he's work came : perl plugins. So I could kept a simple base and add functionnalities as anyone whishes. Those who want to use thoses functionnalities are able to do it and those who don't can remove them as they don't use them.

homepage : http://gacc.sourceforge.net
You can send me commend, bug reports or patches to tnemeth@free.fr

Help questions can be sent to :

gacc-help@lists.sourceforge.net

Development questions, suggestions (etc.) can be sent to :

gacc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net