Dear Lin Di, thank you for your interest in working with gnucash in the GSoC 2011 program. As a first step, we suggest you should checkout the gnucash sources from SVN and build it yourself on some Linux/Unix computer, see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building
Even though it is possible to develop the cutecash code on Windows/Visual Studio, we strongly suggest you should first set up a Linux build so that you see how the "normal" build of the developers will go along. You can install a Linux virtual machine on your windows computer just for this testing part. Next, please build gnucash (indeed: the original gnucash) from SVN using the gcc/mingw compile system on your windows computer. Follow the instructions from http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows to do that. Finally, you can build cutecash using Visual Studio as well, following the instructions from http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Cutecash and see whether you can add enough features so that it's a "lightweight, easy & fast" data entry possibility in addition to the normal gnucash program. Also, all the ideas from the uservoice page http://gnucash.uservoice.com are useful suggestions for a project in terms of user requirements. Best Regards, Christian Am Freitag, 25. März 2011 schrieb Lin Di: > Basic Information > ----------------- > Student name: Lin Di > Location (Home town, state, country): Singapore > > Contact Information > ------------------- > Email: confuseme...@gmail.com > Instant messaging contact details (Skype or similar): - > Phone number (our mentors will ask for a few phone conversations, > especially in the beginning): - > > Background/Programming Information > ----------------------------------- > What programming experience do you have so far (languages, operating > systems, compilers)? > I have taken courses on C and C++ programming language, mainly on data > structure and algorithm. > > Have you worked on programming project(s) before, and which one(s)? > Yest. currently I am working on a software engineering project that > develops a new bus fare calculation and deduction system. > > What project in GnuCash would you like to work on? > I would like to work on Cutecash: An alternative GUI. > > How do you propose to solve the problem(s) posed in the project you'd > like to work on? > I would like to re-write the GUI with Microsoft Visual Studio in C++. > > Have you ever built an open source package from source? > Not really. But I am very appreciated of the idea of open source. > > Have you ever built GnuCash from source? > Not really. But I am willing to learn new things from GnuCash. > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
