[GNC-dev] Wiki Building Instructions Reorganization

2018-09-19 Thread David Cousens
To all interested parties, As a first step to doing a restructure I decided to map (fairly roughly) the area of the wiki associated with Building GnuCash from Sources that was accessible from the main wiki Building GnuCash page in an attached Freeplane Mindmap BuildingGnucashMap20180920.mm

Re: [GNC-dev] ImpEx Sample files

2018-09-19 Thread David Cousens
Frank, I too had a look around and couldn't find any sample/test files but I had found the SWIFT and DTAUS. I am surprised the maintainers of the standards don't generate them to allow testing for compliance. If absolutely necessary I will generate my own. I'm reluctant to produce my own as

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-19 Thread David Cousens
John, Geert, Adrien, David Thanks for all the prespectives. I will attempt a restructure of the Building Gnucash page and its derivatives, trying to push as much information back to the generic Linux level as I can from the BuildingUbuntu 16.04 pages. I have no experience of building on Windows

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-19 Thread Adrien Monteleone
For users to be able to obtain the latest (or otherwise particularly desired) version not in their repos, I would agree with David C. & Geert here that a single generic linux recipe for tarballs, augmented with links to quirks for particular *non-deprecated* distributions and/or historical

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-19 Thread David Cousens
On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 13:16 -0400, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote: > 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

Re: [GNC-dev] There was an error parsing the file...

2018-09-19 Thread chris graves
> On Sep 17, 2018, at 9:53 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> On Sep 17, 2018, at 8:00 AM, chris graves wrote: >> >> Same thing happens when using the new build to create a new gnucash file. >> Removing the duplicate lines allows the file to open, but they are placed >> right back at the

Re: [GNC-dev] Git Questions With Documentation

2018-09-19 Thread Geert Janssens
David, Considering David T's expressed concern regarding git, setting up collaboration in one repo is probably the least complicated. That would allow you to help out with the more subtle git operations, and allow David T. to worry less about that part. Geert Op dinsdag 18 september 2018

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-19 Thread Geert Janssens
Op dinsdag 18 september 2018 10:19:02 CEST schreef 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

Re: [GNC-dev] translation of new register helper panels

2018-09-19 Thread Alain Sanguinetti
Hello, It was my mistake, I am using 2.1.1 of Poedit but I didn't know that strings starting with an empty "" appeared first at the top when sorted alphabetically. (Don't really understand why, since strings starting with \n are on the contrary still sorted according to the letter of the

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

2018-09-19 Thread Geert Janssens
Op woensdag 19 september 2018 05:19:08 CEST schreef 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