Re: Wiki is down

2018-02-04 Thread David Carlson
Today it is taking about a quarter second to respond to a ping. Not sure how to do traceroute in Windows. the pages load slowly. David C On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 7:36 AM, David Carlson wrote: > I noticed that about 7 hours ago. At that time it took as long as a >

Re: Wiki is down

2018-02-04 Thread Derek Atkins
The server is behind a thin straw for a while. And for the next couple days I am not co-located. I will do what I can until my final move is complete.. But that is months away. Sorry for the inconvenience. -derek Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos. On February 4, 2018

Re: Wiki is down

2018-02-04 Thread David Carlson
I noticed that about 7 hours ago. At that time it took as long as a second to respond to pings but after a while I did get the page https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/UpdateNotes to load. David C On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:41 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel < gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > … not

Re: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-04 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Wm I wished to experiment in what budgeting should look like by using the existing engine, UI, and reporting infrastructure. It's actually not that difficult to create a 'budget balance calculator'; whether it meets the needs for everyone is another matter. But for people who wish to

Re: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-04 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 03/02/2018 00:12, Matt Graham wrote: Wow! That become contentious quick!!! Only sort of. If you read the devel list before the user list you get a feeling for what isn't going to happen soon and why. The primary issue I’m seeing here is one of philosophy. What is GNUCash for? What is

Re: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-04 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 04/02/2018 13:44, Christopher Lam wrote: I wished to experiment in what budgeting should look like by using the existing engine, UI, and reporting infrastructure. If you want to know how one form of budgeting, that which includes envelope budgeting budgeting is likely to be implemented

Re: GnuCash Opens Dirty?

2018-02-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
David C., It is apparently my mistake, but I understood the “--nofile” command line argument to mean “Open GnuCash with no file.” As in: No. File. Nothing. And if I have Nothing in my file, what, pray tell, is there to save? David T. P.S. — For yucks, I executed “Gnucash --nofile” and

RE: Future allocated money, aka Envelope Budgeting

2018-02-04 Thread Matt Graham
Thanks for your replies! I still need to go through all the interesting links from that plain text accounting page, so that might change my mind, but I hope they keep at least the existing budget functionality. I see the existing budget tool as just a way to plan out the future state of your

Windows build Unstable Fails

2018-02-04 Thread Robert Fewell
Hi, I thought I would build the latest Windows unstable version to prove some changes I was going to make but it failed as follows... I ran setup-ming64-ps1 which updated the core system files as usual and this completed OK. Probably my first mistake, should of kept the system files at a known

Re: GnuCash Opens Dirty?

2018-02-04 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
So,  gnucash cannot run without an active file? It seems odd to have the program create the beginnings of a file without my invoking File->New. Nevertheless, marking the stub file clean seems like a fine solution.  David On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 22:49, John Ralls wrote: