RE: Vista (progress? estimate?)
For what it's worth: I'm running Vista Ultimate and I've used gnucash 2.2.1 for about 5 months on Vista and last month I have upgraded to 2.2.4. All this time I have had no problems with the single exception of having to install ORBit2-2.13.3.zip in combination with GnuCash 2.2.1 but apparently that has been fixed in later versions so you won't run into it. For the 2.2.4 I just ran the Gnucash installer, piece of cake... Andy -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Mike or Penny Novack Verzonden: zaterdag 22 maart 2008 13:58 Aan: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Onderwerp: Vista (progress? estimate?) I need to do some organizational planning but I am posting this here rather than the user list because of the nature of parts of this question. Problem statement --- I am currently the Treasurer for a 501c3 but next year will have to take at least a one year hiatus (term limit bylaw). Which means I have to be able to turn this over to somebody else. I have the organizational books up under GnuCash and would like them to be able to remain under GnuCash. Currently running on our PERSONAL computer but that's part of the problem for turnover. There is a time limit issue on getting a reimbursement for the organizational computer lost in the fire. 1) What is the current Vista situation? If GnuCash still isn't Vista ready, anybody willing to give a time estimate on when they think the problem will have been solved? Please, I am not intending this as holding anybody's feet to the fire or hanging them for a bad guess -- I used to do this for a living and know how deliverable dates slip OR what gets delivered actually missing pieces. But I need a guesstimate in order to make other choices. 2) What is driving this is another time limit -- one involving reimbursement (replacement) insurance for what was lost in the fire. There are naturally some constraints (besides cost) but essentially I can buy an approximately ~550* device for ~150 (the already received depreciated current value of the destroyed device). The sad realities are.. a) Nobody is very willing to house an extra desktop. They will want it on a laptop. b) There is ONE other director who would be willing to run Linux. I just can't make use something other than Windows a requirement for running for Treasurer. c) I can get a refurbished laptop under XP with adequate modern hardware to possibly be able to justify the decision. You need to understand that the problem is at this cost my choices in new laptops running XP is very limited. Remember -- for the rest of the board (minus one other person besides myself) the politics of free software irrelevant AND the cost issue not as relevant (Intuit won't -- but many vendors charge non-profits less and/or agencies give grants for purposes like all directors get the same version of MS Office). The point here is that I don't want to wage a fight that I don't have to (justify why I got a refurbished laptop rather than a new one for the same price!). I can hold off on action six months at least. That's why I am asking for a prediction. I also face the potential problem of my replacement NOT wanting a dedicated device but asking me to install GnuCash on their device. So we aren't talking about date when buildable on Vista but availability of a stable release. Michael * allowed to spend more -- essentially for any replacement device bought costing that mush or more get the maximum reimbursement of 400 so only paying cost-400 for the device -- There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave. ___ 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
Vista (progress? estimate?)
I need to do some organizational planning but I am posting this here rather than the user list because of the nature of parts of this question. Problem statement --- I am currently the Treasurer for a 501c3 but next year will have to take at least a one year hiatus (term limit bylaw). Which means I have to be able to turn this over to somebody else. I have the organizational books up under GnuCash and would like them to be able to remain under GnuCash. Currently running on our PERSONAL computer but that's part of the problem for turnover. There is a time limit issue on getting a reimbursement for the organizational computer lost in the fire. 1) What is the current Vista situation? If GnuCash still isn't Vista ready, anybody willing to give a time estimate on when they think the problem will have been solved? Please, I am not intending this as holding anybody's feet to the fire or hanging them for a bad guess -- I used to do this for a living and know how deliverable dates slip OR what gets delivered actually missing pieces. But I need a guesstimate in order to make other choices. 2) What is driving this is another time limit -- one involving reimbursement (replacement) insurance for what was lost in the fire. There are naturally some constraints (besides cost) but essentially I can buy an approximately ~550* device for ~150 (the already received depreciated current value of the destroyed device). The sad realities are.. a) Nobody is very willing to house an extra desktop. They will want it on a laptop. b) There is ONE other director who would be willing to run Linux. I just can't make use something other than Windows a requirement for running for Treasurer. c) I can get a refurbished laptop under XP with adequate modern hardware to possibly be able to justify the decision. You need to understand that the problem is at this cost my choices in new laptops running XP is very limited. Remember -- for the rest of the board (minus one other person besides myself) the politics of free software irrelevant AND the cost issue not as relevant (Intuit won't -- but many vendors charge non-profits less and/or agencies give grants for purposes like all directors get the same version of MS Office). The point here is that I don't want to wage a fight that I don't have to (justify why I got a refurbished laptop rather than a new one for the same price!). I can hold off on action six months at least. That's why I am asking for a prediction. I also face the potential problem of my replacement NOT wanting a dedicated device but asking me to install GnuCash on their device. So we aren't talking about date when buildable on Vista but availability of a stable release. Michael * allowed to spend more -- essentially for any replacement device bought costing that mush or more get the maximum reimbursement of 400 so only paying cost-400 for the device -- There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Vista (progress? estimate?)
Um, I've heard no news that 2.2.4 doesn't work on Vista. Does 2.2.4 NOT work on vista? -derek Quoting Mike or Penny Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need to do some organizational planning but I am posting this here rather than the user list because of the nature of parts of this question. Problem statement --- I am currently the Treasurer for a 501c3 but next year will have to take at least a one year hiatus (term limit bylaw). Which means I have to be able to turn this over to somebody else. I have the organizational books up under GnuCash and would like them to be able to remain under GnuCash. Currently running on our PERSONAL computer but that's part of the problem for turnover. There is a time limit issue on getting a reimbursement for the organizational computer lost in the fire. 1) What is the current Vista situation? If GnuCash still isn't Vista ready, anybody willing to give a time estimate on when they think the problem will have been solved? Please, I am not intending this as holding anybody's feet to the fire or hanging them for a bad guess -- I used to do this for a living and know how deliverable dates slip OR what gets delivered actually missing pieces. But I need a guesstimate in order to make other choices. 2) What is driving this is another time limit -- one involving reimbursement (replacement) insurance for what was lost in the fire. There are naturally some constraints (besides cost) but essentially I can buy an approximately ~550* device for ~150 (the already received depreciated current value of the destroyed device). The sad realities are.. a) Nobody is very willing to house an extra desktop. They will want it on a laptop. b) There is ONE other director who would be willing to run Linux. I just can't make use something other than Windows a requirement for running for Treasurer. c) I can get a refurbished laptop under XP with adequate modern hardware to possibly be able to justify the decision. You need to understand that the problem is at this cost my choices in new laptops running XP is very limited. Remember -- for the rest of the board (minus one other person besides myself) the politics of free software irrelevant AND the cost issue not as relevant (Intuit won't -- but many vendors charge non-profits less and/or agencies give grants for purposes like all directors get the same version of MS Office). The point here is that I don't want to wage a fight that I don't have to (justify why I got a refurbished laptop rather than a new one for the same price!). I can hold off on action six months at least. That's why I am asking for a prediction. I also face the potential problem of my replacement NOT wanting a dedicated device but asking me to install GnuCash on their device. So we aren't talking about date when buildable on Vista but availability of a stable release. Michael * allowed to spend more -- essentially for any replacement device bought costing that mush or more get the maximum reimbursement of 400 so only paying cost-400 for the device -- There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave. ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
Re: Vista (progress? estimate?)
Derek Atkins wrote: Um, I've heard no news that 2.2.4 doesn't work on Vista. Does 2.2.4 NOT work on vista? That's why I am asking. I don't (thank goodness) have a Vista machine here at the moment. The last discussions about this problem were around October with the problem then not resolved (there was a work around, but not the sort of thing I could tell an 'end user to do). AFAIK there hasn't been an all fixed now posting. I am just trying to be proactive. The replacement part of our insurance will reimburse for a number of machines (at various different amounts for each) so I have to figure out how best to juggle. I was able to get use of GnuCash approved (replacing QuickBooks Pro nonprofit -- more precisely NOT replacing this software post fire) but need to look ahead how to maintain that decision. I have board approval NOT to replace the machine dedicated to chapter financials under the assumption that anybody becoming treasurer would probably already have more machines in their house than room for (don't we all). But doing it that way means my being able to install the software on the new treasurer's machine and I can't specify must still be running XP (so if not OK on Vista by this Fall, I would get an inexpensive laptop running XP for dedicated) Michael ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
