Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 6, 2014 10:41:17 PM -0400 John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: That's unfortunate. It means that our strategy of merging instead of rebasing isn't going to work. I can't address the details until I get back from travel next week -- and it may take a few more days of catch up after

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Herbert Thoma
We have a FAQ on this issue: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Security:_Encryption.2C_Password_Feature.2C_... Am 07.05.2014 00:40, schrieb Michalis Kamprianis: Hi, I can see in uservoice, and I think frequently asked in lists, the request for encryption or password protection of the datafile.

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? It’s that the ancient msvcrt.dll used by MinGW doesn’t

Re: Win3: redirect.c ?

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 06 May 2014 22:31:37 John Ralls wrote: On May 6, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: There is a source file redirect.c in packaging/win32 together with a Makefile to compile this into a program called redirect. But I can't find this program in

Re: Building on Windows - status update

2014-05-07 Thread Wm Tarr
On 06/05/2014 20:51, Geert Janssens wrote: Continuing the effort to improve the build experience on Windows. the README at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows [1] doesn't reflect recent changes and presumes reading of this list. [1] I presume the gnucash repository is preferred over

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 06 May 2014 22:41:17 John Ralls wrote: On May 6, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: I get this error when I quit GnuCash (master branch) with a report open: Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 157: 7 [catch #t #catch-closure 116f3a2c0 ...] In unknown

Re: Building on Windows - status update

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
Thank you for your feedback. On Wednesday 07 May 2014 14:18:03 Wm Tarr wrote: On 06/05/2014 20:51, Geert Janssens wrote: Continuing the effort to improve the build experience on Windows. the README at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows [1] doesn't reflect recent changes and

Re: Building on Windows - status update

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:12:36 Geert Janssens wrote: Other thoughts: As things are changing fairly quickly at the moment is the presumption in bootstrap_win_dev.vbs that I've got both gnucash-on-windows.git gnucash.git a good sign that they don't need to be updated? I

Re: RESULT!

2014-05-07 Thread Wm Tarr
On 06/05/2014 17:01, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2014 22:41:17 John Ralls wrote: On May 6, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: I get this error when I quit GnuCash (master branch) with a report open: Backtrace: In

Re: Subtotal per day

2014-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Michael, Michael Dietz itplaine...@yahoo.com writes: Any news as far as when (or if) gnucash will get a report that subtotals selected accounts per day. It will have it when you write it and donate it back! Thank you for volunteering! (This *IS* the -devel list after all). We eagerly

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Michalis, Michalis Kamprianis micha...@linuxmail.org writes: The thing is, (a) I don't know if you're interested and / or agree in implementing something like that, and The developers are generally agreed that we are NOT interested in this. (b) although I will probably manage to code

Re: RESULT!

2014-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? It’s

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Tuesday 06 May 2014 18:16:51 Mike Alexander wrote: Just to pick another random example, the merge also removed a call to qof_instance_set_dirty in gnc_template_register_save_xfrm_cell which is in register/ledger-core/split-register-model-save.c. This call was added in 613ba0d on December

Re: RESULT!

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 07 May 2014 12:30:42 Derek Atkins wrote: Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be writes: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on

Hello Gnucash-Devel

2014-05-07 Thread Sumit Bhardwaj
Hi Everyone, Having been a silent viewer on Devel list for some time, it's time for me to introduce myself and see how I can contribute. Quick intro: I live in the Valley, but my day job involves only Python scripts. I am a long-time user of Gnucash (First transaction: Jul 8, 2004). Programming

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Christian Stimming
Hi Michalis, thanks a lot for your offer for help, and thanks for explaining your idea. Contrary to what some other developers replied, the feature is indeed welcomed by at least part of the developers and surely by many users. I've discussed this previously, see (as you have probably seen

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
The developers are generally agreed that we are NOT interested in this. (b) although I will probably manage to code the open and save routines, I'm not sure I will not get stuck somewhere, in which case it will either remain as an unfinished project, or I will need some help from

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Sumit Bhardwaj
Merging threads from Christian and Michael. My summary from the thread is that: Password protection feature seems to be something that would be useful to have. Encryption is better left to specific tools. This would be easy to explain to users. From Derek's email, it's a good idea to go ahead.

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread Mike Alexander
--On May 7, 2014 6:41:03 PM +0200 Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2014 18:16:51 Mike Alexander wrote: Just to pick another random example, the merge also removed a call to qof_instance_set_dirty in gnc_template_register_save_xfrm_cell which is in

Re: backend encryption / security

2014-05-07 Thread Michalis Kamprianis
Hi all, thank you for the valuable feedback. Let me start by saying that programming is not something I'm current at - I haven't written anything longer than 10 lines, for more than 8 years so you get an idea. On the other hand, security (design, architecture, consulting) is what I'm really

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:22:27 Mike Alexander wrote: --On May 7, 2014 6:41:03 PM +0200 Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2014 18:16:51 Mike Alexander wrote: Just to pick another random example, the merge also removed a call to qof_instance_set_dirty

Re: GnuCash at Open Help?

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about user help in GnuCash (documentation, mailing lists and other forms), so I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction if you're

Re: private-kvp merge reverted other changes since November.

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:22:27 Mike Alexander wrote: --On May 7, 2014 6:41:03 PM +0200 Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2014 18:16:51 Mike Alexander wrote: Just to pick another