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authorwiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org>2006-07-16 08:45:33 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org>2006-07-16 08:45:33 +0000
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downloadpkgsrc-32f0966059c5770f6437ea1e692c2541714b2d5a.tar.gz
Update DESCR, not devel version any longer. Noted by mjl.
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--- a/finance/gnucash/DESCR
+++ b/finance/gnucash/DESCR
@@ -1,38 +1,27 @@
-NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT
-BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
+GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register
+GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income
+and even currency trades. A full set of reports allow you to see
+the state of your finances. The interface is designed to be simple
+and easy to use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles
+to ensure balanced books. Features include:
-USE AT YOUR OWN RISK (AND KEEP *LOTS* OF BACKUPS)
-
-See the pkgsrc/finance/gnucash package for the stable version.
-
-GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI
-allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even
-currency trades. A full set of reports allow you to see the state of
-your finances. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use,
-but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure
-balanced books.
-
-Features include:
-
- - An easy-to-use interface. If you can use the
- register in the back of your checkbook, you
- can use GnuCash. Type directly into the register,
- tab between fields, and use quick-fill to
- automatically complete the transaction.
- The interface is customizable from within the
- application itself (no editing config files :) )
+ - An easy-to-use interface. If you can use the register in the
+ back of your checkbook, you can use GnuCash. Type directly
+ into the register, tab between fields, and use quick-fill to
+ automatically complete the transaction. The interface is
+ customizable from within the application itself (no editing
+ config files :) )
- Scheduled Transactions
- Mortgage & Loan Repayment Druid
- Small Business Accounting Features
- OFX Import
- HBCI Support
- Quicken File Import
- - Reconcile window with running reconciled
- and cleared balances makes reconciliation easy.
+ - Reconcile window with running reconciled and cleared balances
+ makes reconciliation easy.
- Stock/Mutual Fund Portfolios
- - Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites,
- update portfolio automatically (more funds being added
- regularly).
+ - Get Stock & Mutual Fund quotes from various web sites, update
+ portfolio automatically (more funds being added regularly).
- Reports
- Multiple Currencies & Currency Trading
- New Multi-Currency Transaction Handling
@@ -43,11 +32,10 @@ Features include:
- General Ledger
- Written in C with embedded scheme support via Guile.
- File access is locked in a network-safe fashion, preventing
- accidental damage if several users attempt to access the
- same file, even if the file is NFS-mounted.
- - Provides a byte-stream format, which allows accounts and
- account groups to be transmitted to other processes
- via pipes or sockets.
+ accidental damage if several users attempt to access the same
+ file, even if the file is NFS-mounted.
+ - Provides a byte-stream format, which allows accounts and account
+ groups to be transmitted to other processes via pipes or sockets.
- International date handling, many different translations.
- New User Manual and Help
- Redesigned Menus