> On Oct 20, 2016, at 8:55 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> > wrote: > > On 20/10/2016 06:52, Thomas Baumgart wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thursday 20 October 2016 00:31:29 Lincoln A Baxter wrote: >> >>> IMO, you are asking the right (hard) questions... I'm interested in >>> seeing the response to the https://kmymoney.org/ question. Is this a >>> fork, or not? >> >> I can certainly answer that: No it is not a fork, even though some concepts >> are similar/inspired by GnuCash and it uses the same backends like AqBanking >> and libOFX provided as separate libraries. > > thank you > > I am aware that this can bring up feelings but is there a document > describing the motivation to develop separately? > > for all I know it could simply have been born of the KDE thing of doing > it yourself even if it wasn't necessary and you weren't going to do it > better :) > > I think some things could be borrowed both ways but maybe everyone is > just too old and grumpy to talk about it ...
Their repository on SourceForge started in 2001, only a couple of years after GnuCash. Being a KDE project, it's in C++ and always was. That alone would have limited the opportunities for shared development. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
