Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi, There have been a couple of messages on the user list lately about people mistakenly downloading the development version instead of the stable version. Cause of this appears to be the news page that prominently shows the new (unstable) releases, while the latest stable release is more down

Gnucash mirror issue

2009-11-11 Thread Geert Janssens
I just thought I'd mention this... While investigating the download links I mentioned in my previous post, I notice there's a problem with the ftp.at.gnucash.org mirror. Clicking this linkgives me a message telling me that there are more than 100 files in this directory and an option to see

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/11 Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be: Hi, There have been a couple of messages on the user list lately about people mistakenly downloading the development version instead of the stable version. Cause of this appears to be the news page that prominently shows the new

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Phil Longstaff
I generate the release note and news by hand. For the news item, I create a new file in htdocs/trunk/news, and automated scripts (php?) create the gnucash page. I then trim out the HTML stuff and post it to the mailing lists. Phil From: Geert Janssens

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Colin Law wrote: 2009/11/11 Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be: Hi, There have been a couple of messages on the user list lately about people mistakenly downloading the development version instead of the stable version. Cause of this appears to

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Tim M
I think you should simply add a section with download links for the stable version below the Features section of the page, just above News. The news is far more prominent than the sidebar download links, plus the sidebar links take the user to the Sourceforge page which shows the Mac 2.3.7 .dmg

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Geert Janssens
[ Sorry, and this time to the list as well... ]] On Wednesday 11 November 2009, you wrote: I think you should simply add a section with download links for the stable version below the Features section of the page, just above News. The news is far more prominent than the sidebar download

Re: Website and download confusion

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: I think you should simply add a section with download links for the stable version below the Features section of the page, just above News. That's indeed the kind of links I intended to add. I'll see what I can set up. These

Re: Or maybe not? German tax report should be disabled altogether (Re: [PATCH] - bug #554394 - Income Tax Enhancements - missing German patches attached)

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 6. November 2009 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena: I don't know whether the German tax features are now more broken than before. But to my knowledge it didn't really work at any time, but it rather was a pure proof-of-concept. I'll ask on the German list whether anyone was actually

Re: Or maybe not? German tax report should be disabled altogether (Re: [PATCH] - bug #554394 - Income Tax Enhancements - missing German patches attached)

2009-11-11 Thread J. Alex Aycinena
Christian, 2009/11/11 Christian Stimming stimm...@tuhh.de: Am Freitag, 6. November 2009 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena: I don't know whether the German tax features are now more broken than before. But to my knowledge it didn't really work at any time, but it rather was a pure proof-of-concept.

Re: [PATCH] - bug #554394 - Income Tax Enhancements

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Montag, 2. November 2009 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena: Hello, I am submitting patches that implement the following enhancements related to Income Taxes in Gnucash: Dear Alex, the patch fails to compile here with the following error: cc1: warnings being treated as errors

Re: Or maybe not? German tax report should be disabled altogether (Re: [PATCH] - bug #554394 - Income Tax Enhancements - missing German patches attached)

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Alex, Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 schrieb J. Alex Aycinena: If you want to remove it, of course go ahead and do so. But the easiest thing (i.e., least amount of work for you) might be to just go ahead and apply my patches - the German version of taxes will work no better, but no

Re: Default save-as file format: Rather stick to XML?

2009-11-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 8. November 2009 schrieb Phil Longstaff: What do you mean by switch back to XML? I'm not talking about disabling anything, or automatically changing any file from one format to another. What I'm talking about is the *default* for when people use the Save-As dialog. Another