About GnuCash


GnuCash is a program to keep track of your finances. Some of the features are:

Advanced Features

GnuCash offers some features not usually found in simpler accounting programs.

Version

This version is gnucash-1.1.20, a somewhat unstable, buggy version. The latest stable release is 1.0.18, you should be using that.

Versions 1.0.x are considered to be stable revisions with all currently known bugs fixed. Versions 1.1.x are considered to be development versions, which may have many bugs. The next stable series will be 1.2.x

Credits


Fred Baube <fred@moremagic.com> for Java port
Christopher B. Browne <cbbrowne@hex.net> for perl stock scripts
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> for perl, scheme & GTK graphing
George Chen <georgec@sco.com> for MS-Money QIF's & fixes
Robin Clark <rclark@hmc.edu> for original xacc
Jeremey Collins <linux@cyberramp.net> for GnoMoney & GTK port
Bob Drzyzgula <bob@mostly.com> for budgeting design notes
Koen D'Hondt <ripley@xs4all.nl> for Solaris patches to XmHTML
Ciaran Deignan <Ciaran.Deignan@bull.net> for AIX binary version
Dave Freese <DFreese@osc.uscg.mil> for leap-year fix
Otto Hammersmith <otto@bug.redhat.com> for RedHat RPM version
Tom Kludy <tkludy@csd.sgi.com> for SGI Irix port
Peter Norton <spacey@inch.com> for a valiant attempt at a GTK port
Gavin Porter <maufk@csv.warwick.ac.uk> for euro style dates
Ron Record <rr@sco.com> for SCO Unixware & OpenServer binaries
Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk> for Solaris cleanup
Henning Spruth <spruth@bigfoot.com> for German text & euro date fixes
Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org> for leading the project
... and I am sure that I have missed many others ...

Supported Operating Systems

xacc is known to work in the following configs:
Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ RedHat Motif
Linux 2.0.x -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.81
Linux Debian -- Intel w/ Lesstif v0.81
SGI IRIX -- MIPS
IBM AIX 4.1.5 -- RS/6000
SCO Unixware 7 -- Intel
SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 -- Intel
NetBSD -- Intel

History

The table below shows some historical lines-of-code and number-of-files counts for the X-Accountant/GnuCash development project
Historical Development Stats
Version engine register ledger motif gnome qt prefs (scm) docs (html) misc Total
xacc-0.9
Sept 97
- - - 34 files
(7.5+0.9)
- - - 5 files
(0.4)
- 39 files
(8.8)
xacc-0.9w
Dec 97
- - - 51 files
(13.8+1.5)
- - - 9 files
(0.8)
- 60 files
(16.1)
xacc-1.0.17
Feb 98
- - - 52 files
(14.8+1.8)
- - - 12 files
(1.4)
- 64 files
(18.0)
gnucash-1.1.15
Aug 98
24 files
(6.2+1.5)
31 files
(6.1+1.7)
5 files
(1.4+0.4)
30 files
(7.4+0.7)
17 files
(3.4+0.5)
16 files
(1.2+0.2)
3 files
(0.3)
16 files
(1.9)
not counted
(>1.0)
142 files
(32.9)

Each cell contains:

number of *c and *.h files
(KLOCS in *.c + KLOCS in *.h),

where KLOC == kilo-lines-of-code, as reported by wc.