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I'm looking for an easily extensible double-entry accounting system for hackers. I would imagine many self employed entrepreneurs/hackers rolling their own for

I'm looking for an easily extensible double-entry accounting system for hackers. I would imagine many self employed entrepreneurs/hackers rolling their own for their needs but haven't been able to find anything open source in the wild that's both somewhat complete and extensible. Gnucash is polished but extensibility isn't too great. Command line seems a bit too much on the other side of the spectrum. Suggestions anyone?

idm 17y ago
Did you just use "hackers" and "too extensible" to describe your problem? :) As I see it, ledger has two excellent interfaces: text files (i.e. the ledger itself, where the transactions are stored) and the command line. You extend it with anything that writes to text files (that is, anything at all) and you script it with anything that executes commands (bash, python, makefiles, you name it). In my case, I added on a transaction downloader/importer that simply extends the text file aspect. I use other people's scripts to actually generate reports, from that point on.
olefoo 17y ago
If you love SQL and Perl or are a bit of a masochist you could look at SQL-Ledger or Ledger-SMB (fork of the former). It's relatively well tested. They are web interface programs (a bunch of CGI scripts in front of a postgresql database) so you can let non-technical people drive them.