Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Rolf Leggewie
Geert Janssens wrote: Maybe it would be good to get an overview of typical accounting issues/agreements in Europe to see if some more general improvements could be made towards European users ? Maybe you are looking for something like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473506 My

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
My understanding for the reason of the current situation is that there is nobody fitting all of the following description. 1) can code 2) has time to contribute code 3) business user 4) lives in Europe I fit 3 and 4. I currently think that trying to get gnucash into shape for business users

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Rolf Leggewie
Mike or Penny Novack wrote: IMHO you do not want a person who meets all those criteria. Mike, thank you for your reply. While your theoretical description may be correct, I think I have accurately summed up why in reality gnucash is not moving forward for European business users. That is,

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
Rolf Leggewie wrote: Mike or Penny Novack wrote: IMHO you do not want a person who meets all those criteria. Mike, thank you for your reply. While your theoretical description may be correct, I think I have accurately summed up why in reality gnucash is not moving forward for

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Rolf Leggewie
Mike, thank you for your mail. I am sure you have great experience in developing software, I am not questioning that. I am not sure your experiences, the analytical approach, division of labor (hats as you described them) which I would consider best practice in any kind of business project

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
I am not sure your experiences, the analytical approach, division of labor (hats as you described them) which I would consider best practice in any kind of business project can easily be transferred to gnucash or any other FOSS project. The only real difference is that it's

Re: Request: Enhancement in Use of Account Codes

2008-12-25 Thread Rolf Leggewie
Let's agree to disagree on the facts instead of wasting more time on trying to win an argument, OK? You have your perspective, I think it does not apply. I stated my perspective based on my experience over the last two years or so actually working on the kind of support that we are now

Re: Problems with dbi-connector and mysql

2008-12-25 Thread Phil Longstaff
Hi Oliver, a few things: 1) Since this question involves software which has not been released yet, it should really be on gnucash-devel, not gnucash-user. 2) What are you running on? Linux? Windows? What distribution? 3) Assuming you are on Linux, do you have a file