Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
It’s Debian and derivatives: Ubuntu is a derivative--or these days maybe a symbiote, there are Canonical reps on the Debian board--of Debian. I frankly don’t understand why Ubuntu needs a per-release explanation of how to build it, especially since Debian doesn’t. `sudo apt-get build-dep

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread David Cousens
On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 11:18 -0500, Adrien Monteleone wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > > wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps you can do some cleanup: Is Gutsy outdated? > > That was version 7.10 of Ubuntu, that is, released October 2007. By far, it > is no longer

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-18 Thread David Cousens
On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 10:58 -0400, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote: > Hello, > > Once again, my words have gotten the better of me. I apologize for the length > of this message... > > I have to admit that I do not understand what part of this research qualifies > it for an IgNobel—was it the

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 18.09.18 um 16:58 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: > The wild card in this Assistance Continuum is the wiki. There is a lot of > useful information there; how would a user know to find it? Placing an actual > link to the wiki is doomed to fail, since the wiki is by nature dynamic. Is >

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:16 PM, David T. wrote: > >> >> Along with that, if older material for older systems and versions isn’t >> going to be moved to its own ‘archive’ page, then it should always appear >> down the page in chronological order. The current state of the build >>

Re: [GNC-dev] ImpEx Sample files

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 18.09.18 um 18:47 schrieb David T.: > > >> On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger >> wrote: >> >> DTA >> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datentr%C3%A4geraustauschverfahren >> Was introduced by the german bank association ZKA >> - today: https://die-dk.de/en/ - >> in 1976 for

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Hello, I have a general question about building. Forgive me if this is naive. The last time I used Linux was last century, and I believe that Linux has changed just a tad since then. Since GnuCash is now developed over git, can't users|developers|writers|yetis use git for most distros to

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 7:58 AM, David T. wrote: > > Hello, > > Once again, my words have gotten the better of me. I apologize for the length > of this message... > > I have to admit that I do not understand what part of this research qualifies > it for an IgNobel—was it the “well, duh!”

Re: [GNC-dev] ImpEx Sample files

2018-09-18 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 11:46 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > DTA > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datentr%C3%A4geraustauschverfahren > Was introduced by the german bank association ZKA > - today: https://die-dk.de/en/ - > in 1976 for magnetic tapes, later floppies, ... > 2016-02-01 it

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread Adrien Monteleone
> On Sep 18, 2018, at 7:53 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > > Perhaps you can do some cleanup: Is Gutsy outdated? That was version 7.10 of Ubuntu, that is, released October 2007. By far, it is no longer supported by Canonical. (wasn’t even a Long Term Support release) And there is

Re: [GNC-dev] ImpEx Sample files

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Am 18.09.18 um 15:00 schrieb David Cousens: > One problem I will have is getting sample files for the MT940, MT942 and > DTAUS formats so I can run through the > interfaces. I have a friend who was a manager with Deutsche Bank a few years > ago but Klaus is now working for another > company in

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation Redo

2018-09-18 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Hello, Once again, my words have gotten the better of me. I apologize for the length of this message... I have to admit that I do not understand what part of this research qualifies it for an IgNobel—was it the “well, duh!” aspect, or was it that these folks took seven years to determine

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread John Ralls
David, Doesn’t GitKraken allow you to have multiple remotes in a repo? Regards, John Ralls > On Sep 18, 2018, at 6:00 AM, David Cousens wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > The problem I was having is that until David Ts changes are merged into the > main repo > I can't pull them using either GitHub or

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
David, I am glad that you are taking on this aspect of the docs. Thank you. I would like to note to you (and reiterate for the larger group) the following important information: I am a POOR CHOICE to be considered some kind of documentation expert. While I have a great deal of editorial

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread David Cousens
Hi Frank, The problem I was having is that until David Ts changes are merged into the main repo I can't pull them using either GitHub or GitKraken to my local repo from the GnuCash-docs github. I use Gitkraken and it has just allowed me to clone https://github.com/sunfish62/gnucash-docs into

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David Cousens, In general the wiki needs some modularization to reduce redundancy. That means, where ever you see similar text, create a new page with the best parts and replace the pold texts with a link. OTOH there are different target groups from expirienced coders to less techie first

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 18 september 2018 10:36:14 CEST schreef David Cousens: > David, > > It was the master branch which was 139 commits behind. I looked at the maint > branch and noticed it was up to date. > > I have tried forking your repository but as I already had a fork of the main > gnucash-docs

[GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi David Cousens, Am 18.09.18 um 10:36 schrieb David Cousens: > David, > > It was the master branch which was 139 commits behind. I looked at the maint > branch and noticed it was up to date. > > I have tried forking your repository but as I already had a fork of the main > gnucash-docs

Re: [GNC-dev] gnucash maint: Update Overview of README

2018-09-18 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi Geert Am 18.09.18 um 09:39 schrieb Geert Janssens: > It looks like the actual changes in the README file didn't make it in this > commit ? > > There's only a change in .gitignore. > > Geert Sorry, Eclipse had changed the commit dialog. Redone a commit 10811b8 . Frank

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-18 Thread David Cousens
David, It was the master branch which was 139 commits behind. I looked at the maint branch and noticed it was up to date. I have tried forking your repository but as I already had a fork of the main gnucash-docs repository github wasn't letting me fork your repository separately. It basically

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-18 Thread David Cousens
John, David, Frank I wonder at the value of the Build Tools page as a separate orphan entity given the more detailed instructions given in the Building Gnucash page. There is a fairly good example of dupllcation with it and the following for the Gnucash progarm build.

Re: [GNC-dev] gnucash maint: Update Overview of README

2018-09-18 Thread Geert Janssens
It looks like the actual changes in the README file didn't make it in this commit ? There's only a change in .gitignore. Geert Op maandag 17 september 2018 22:31:16 CEST schreef Frank H. Ellenberger: > Updatedvia https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/586cd704 > (commit) >