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RazorbladeBidet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Fellow monks,
I endeavor to create a custom program similar to Microsoft Money. It will be GUI-based (either CGI or Tk) and have a minimal set of functionality.
I've searched through the Super Search and CPAN and can find nothing related to this (or I am perhaps searching for the wrong thing). Can anyone help?
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Re: Financial Tracking Software (a la Microsoft Money)
by friedo (Prior) on Mar 25, 2005 at 01:26 UTC
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GnuCash is a very powerful financial program that can probably be customized for your needs. It's not Perl, though. There is also SQL Ledger, which is web-based, and is written in Perl. | [reply] |
Re: Financial Tracking Software (a la Microsoft Money)
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 25, 2005 at 01:27 UTC
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Is it going to be OSS? If so, is it going to be on SourceForge? Or some other public repository? Looking for interested parties for help? :-) I'm trying to get rid of Quicken ... so I can get rid of Windows ;-)
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Yet, how on earth will your code improve without public use? I know my coding styles and abilities improved greatly after releasing stuff to CPAN. Put it out there! People will see it, use it, and get back to you with what they liked and didn't like.
Here's another thing - I know my biggest issue is interface. The first question I ask anyone who comes onto the Excel::Template mailing list with a suggestion is "How do you want to use that feature?". They describe their desired usage, someone else brings up their desired usage, and I add in my knowledge of the rest of the features. Eventually, we come to a consensus. Once that consensus is there, it's cake to write the feature. At least 50% of the time spent in writing F/OSS is figuring out what to write. The actual writing/testing/documenting is a lot easier once you have that figured out.
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Hi
I second the recommendation of GnuCash. In fact, I tried to go from GnuCash -> Quicken, and didn't like the assumptions that Quicken's wizards made, and sent it back for my refund
The downside of GnuCash is that there doesn't seem to be a GnuTax, which would be handy this time of year ...
- j
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Personally, I don't think there will/should ever be a gnuTax, because with TurboTax/TaxCut, someone is liable if the return is wrong, and their returns are guaranteed accurate. I'm not saying that someone couldn't develop a GNU version of the same software that would be as correct as TT/TC, but where does the liability fall if something goes wrong? Can the user sue the developer for writing software that say, 1/100000 times made an incorrect calculation that caused the party to be audited?
The user didn't pay for the software, they just downloaded it and used it... so there was no sale or any kind of contract entered into by the developer and the user. I know that there could be some kind of EULA, which I believe has been proved upholdable in court (not sure), but it could just be a sticky situation for a dev who wanted nothing more than to simply give us an alternative to Windows tax software.
As much as I love the idea in theory, in practice.. I don't think it works.
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