Derek Atkins schrieb: > > What's flawed with it? > > well, it requires stored procedures for one (which means it's not > portable). It's hairy. It's easy to mess up. It's confusing. > > See, if we had real Period support then we could just call Periods the > checkpoint. Yes, you would have to pull in all transactions since the > last period, but even for large organizations that wont be a lot. > Even at quarterly periods with 100 transactions a day, you would have to > pull in at most 91000 transactions. > > > You don't need checkpointing for small systems, but if you've go an > > account with tens of thousands of transactions, or more, in it, I think > > you need it. > > Get period support in there and checkpointing falls out of there ;)
I think I agree with Derek here. > > > Speaking of which -- how goes the Lot interface and Periods? Any > > > progress? > > > > No progress. I think about it every now and then ... I really need to > > get some features into gnotime, that's where I've been working. > > *prod prod* Lots of users are waiting for it... And then this > discussion would be relatively moot.... Oh yes please. I do not need SQL storage, I don't have a multiuser application, but I really would like to record my stock losses the right way ... Herbert. > > --linas > > -derek > > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A, Studio Department Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Phone: +49-9131-776-323 Fax: +49-9131-776-399 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.iis.fhg.de/ _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
