Re: Wishes to the new G-Wrap maintainer?

2004-07-14 Thread Rob Browning
the upstream doesn't bump the major number (change the soname) every time they break backward binary compatibility. HTH -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4

Re: Bundling G-Wrap

2004-07-11 Thread Rob Browning
versions in the names, and then also provide a symlink for dlopen/dynamic-link: /usr/lib/libfoo.so.N /usr/lib/libfoo-N.so -> libgw-guile-foo.so.N Given that, you can still use (dynamic-link "libgw-guile-foo-N"), but nothing else has to deal with the versioned name. Of course if you w

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-09 Thread Rob Browning
ahead and modularize the rest of the reports (for consistency), and then any other files that need it. These fixes won't show up in 1.6.0, but look for a (hopefully) large --nofile startup speedup in 1.6.X. Thanks for the report. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F5

Re: 1.5.97 first impression

2001-06-07 Thread Rob Browning
ybe it is stalling on > something really stupid like name resolution. There was apparently also some issue with guppi -- I think maybe it was reading from /dev/random, and so it won't finish until the entropy pool has been full enough to generate all the random numbers it needs. If th

Re: price-db storage via BackEnd?

2001-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
an instatiated report to the > menus. Well, if I were using rsync or vpn+NFS to allow me to work on the same file from work and home, I'd probably want my changes to automatically show up both places, wrt to reports *and* window config, and this is one place, that unless we go to some lengt

Re: price-db storage via BackEnd?

2001-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
that an awful lot of the config data belongs in the data store. Delete the "file" and the config data goes with it. Also, if we do eventually have a multi-user, remote access, user-travelling-from-machine-to-machine, setup, then storing most of the config data in the data store prob

Re: price-db storage via BackEnd?

2001-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
und forever -- not a scalable approach, really. One solution would be for Gnome MDI to have an API that allows you to tell it to give you the data it wants stored, and to ask you for that data when it needs it (i.e. at file open time). That seems like a much cleaner approach for situat

Re: 1.{56} dependancy list

2001-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
;... I've sort of toyed with the idea of an emacs or terminal interface for a while. Not necessarily anything full-blown, but "M-x gnc-add-transaction" would be nice :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 _

Re: transaction ID's

2001-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, you can certainly perform MD5 in Java... Look at www.cryptix.org And make sure your input is at least as random as gnucash's. There should be as close to no chance that you'll accidentally generate duplicate keys as possible

Re: docs for some price-quotes.scm functions?

2001-04-01 Thread Rob Browning
s some documentation too, so I'd rather write something up and submit a patch than describe it several times, but if you need info *now*, I'd be happy to oblige :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___

Re: "Hello, World" report crashes Gnucash

2001-02-28 Thread Rob Browning
se is near, the longer we can delay, the better, because as time passes, the set of issues we'd need to address constantly changes. WRT RH 6.2, for now I think you can rest easy. AFAIK, Dave has made it clear he plans for us to support 6.2, much to my guile

Re: irc pricedb discussion

2001-02-28 Thread Rob Browning
s, you'll then be able to query the pricedb for the latest price for a given commodity with: price = gnc_pricedb_lookup_latest(db, commodity); -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: etags crashes, ctags not

2001-02-28 Thread Rob Browning
/ctags issue, it should be possible to add some tests to configure.in to actually determine which one to use dynamically, or, as suggested, we could just allow a --with-tags-prog=foo option. In my experience, building the TAGS file doesn't appear to add appreciable build time when compared to the ove

irc pricedb discussion

2001-02-27 Thread Rob Browning
l thing" IIRC. there's a trademark on bookshelf. i wouldn't be surprised :) dres: retch. rlb: to wrap this up, maybe you could post an excerpt of this discussion to the ML, for later reference, --- dres has changed the topic to: Today's Gripe: People exchanging "Wh

Re: Another neat bug in current-CVS (hit import, go boom! :)

2001-02-09 Thread Rob Browning
t time you'd updated was? What version of g-wrap are you running, and when did you last change it? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Re: simplifying memory management in panes

2001-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
27;t recognize the valid types without extra help, then I suppose we could just require that "save/restoreable" things be tagged somehow. I can think of half-baked schemes which might allow this, but it's not worth dwelling on until/unless we need it. Hope this is rele

Re: scheduled transactions

2001-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
ay to find out when things are going to happen is to probe every possible event time. And since I had also imagined that we might want to be able to schedule things to the hour or to the minute, this could quickly become very expensive. -- Rob Br

Re: ERROR: no such module (g-wrap)

2001-02-08 Thread Rob Browning
so the configure process can pick up both the right guile and the right guile-config. Finally, if you've changed anything since you downloaded the source (or if you've CVS updated lately), you should make sure and re-run ./autogen.sh YOUR-ARGS, but make sure and do it with

Re: How to keep 1.4.8 & build development version?

2001-01-30 Thread Rob Browning
r/local/opt/gnucash-unstable/bin/gnucash -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: stock split questions

2001-01-30 Thread Rob Browning
ucash the same way, but I could put some annotation about whether it was 2/1 or whatever in the memo or notes field if I wanted/remembered. > Can mutual funds split? Don't know. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___

g-wrap-1.1.9 is released (should fix rpm problems).

2001-01-25 Thread Rob Browning
This version should produce working rpms. The previous version had problems with shared library symlinks. Thanks to Derek for helping debug/fix the problem(s). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ g

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Browning
ast have the functional problems fixed... Thanks for the help. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Ok, I look forward to seeing what you have to say. This is when I > > > really wish guile

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-17 Thread Rob Browning
e what guile realized it needed to be doing as of 1.3.4... so g-wrap 1.1.8 should fix your problem. It's on the ftp site now. Lemme know. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailin

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-17 Thread Rob Browning
ord #f OK, I've got a guile 1.3 g-wrap sandbox installed, and I can now reproduce the problem. Stay tuned. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
to the cell data and a "next" pointer to the > remainder of the list. And anyone who's familiar with glib, LISP lists are somewhat similar to GSLists. GLists are actually doubly linked... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 _

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
that helps. Then we'll have to decide if libgw-runtime.so.0 should be a symlink or the actual binary. In this case, I doubt it matters. Hope this helps. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
the output of strace -f -o strace-dump.tmp guile where you do the same thing at the prompt and then quit? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
e g-wrap lib-dir to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Could that be the problem? i.e. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/opt/g-wrap/lib gnucash ... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
If you need any help with scheme, feel free to ask. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
ndation to the the book people usually refer to as SICP. It's the "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Abelson and Sussman. Aside from being an excellent way to learn scheme, it will probably broaden the way you think about computer p

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-15 Thread Rob Browning
ully weak by comparison. I had similar experiences with haskell, prolog, etc., but scheme is the only one that had enough of a foot in the three worlds of power, elegance, and practicality, to keep me committed to it for large projects. FWIW -- Rob Browning <[E

Re: Saving pane layouts in .xac file

2001-01-05 Thread Rob Browning
er's homedir config instead, then you accumulate cruft whenever files are deleted -- the files are gone, but their per-user settings aren't. Further, putting these in the file eliminates the question of which prefs go with which file. FWIW. -

Re: client-server

2001-01-04 Thread Rob Browning
ith the last rewrite. There'd be a few more things to be done, but as I think about it, maybe not that much. > I'm hitting Rob on his weak spot. Just say 'this will benefit the scheme > language' and he gets all excited .

Re: client-server

2000-12-21 Thread Rob Browning
uppi graph based on the data in the text embedded in our html widget alongside the other html bits. Very clever. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
y realized I *really* wanted :> Sounds quite right to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
ater when we're closer to needing to resolve it. It's quite possible I'm not thinking of things that would make server-side code a bad-idea(TM). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Resolving the stock split/merger issue.

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
t-type set to "stock-split". This won't be exposed, so we can change it later if we need to, but this slot may also be used later to distingush other types of split (i.e. we may need one for closing the books, etc.) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
o seems fairly crucial to being able to customize systems to integrate with a given business' existing infrastructure. If they have a weak DB on the server, but they want us to link to it, we could build a special version of our server-side proxy that presents their database in the way we exp

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
place to add any code we need if we want to make the encryption/authentication system more modular. Seems like a more flexible approach in the long run, but of course it does have it's own set of drawbacks. FWIW. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL P

Re: newbie/sm bus

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
er than creating categories in quicken. As long as you don't do something silly like trying to open up one of these expense accounts, you can just go along, blissfully pretending like they're just categories. Is that not sufficient? -- Rob Browning <

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Rob Browning
nother mail, I kinda think we might be better served moving to one global, flat account list and having various hierarchical structures pointing into that for display/organization purposes, but even if we decide to do taht, it's probably not going to happen in the next month or so. FWIW.

test...

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
test. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
ust require that the account restore be nested inside a (or whatever) block that handles ending the group's edits. One thing that does still bother me a bit is that there's an assymetry for groups now. We don't have an xaccGroupBeginEdit to balance the commit edit. Perhaps we should

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
anges, but which ones? This is getting messy. I defintely don't know enough right now to know what the "constants" here are. Company name changes are obviously ephemeral, but, thinking about it, it seems like ticker symbols, and perhaps even exchanges could be too... -- Rob Browni

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
r that? In point of fact, I don't really care which way we go, and I think you know me well enough to know that difficulty in implementation isn't usually at the top of my criteria list. I'd just like to make sure we pick the best answer given what we know and where we think we might

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
even sure there was any consensus that it was the right thing to do. Hoever, I thought David might want to a least be aware of the discussion. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing li

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
ew projects we can beg/borrow from. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
one could, in confidence, pick one dbms and adopt it > without reservation, the discipline of building an API to separate > it from the rest of the application generally results in a cleaner, > more maintainable system. Agreed. Thanks again for all the input. -- Rob Browning

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
rver-proxy and gnc-client ourselves. > That will be the nature of the first implementation. I always design > way farther than I implement, so that when the later stuff gets > implemented it has already been planned for. At some point probably > weeks from now, I will put much more ser

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
t be very efficient if stored in a table with a bunch of other fixed length fields. In that situation, perhaps we make a table of all the fixed length (the more computational/indexable fields), and another table of blobs that are indexed to the first table by GUID. I think this is the kind of quest

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
es anyone have any objections to this? If not, then unless someone else wants to do it, I'll start working on this, and fixing up the file read code to properly convert old "zero-price" splits -> split quotes immediately. Speak now... Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EM

Re: Schema

2000-12-17 Thread Rob Browning
it; I'm human. If it's not, then I think it > should be. Well, we're using the standard md5sum code, and AFAIK, that's on very solid mathematical footing. I don't have references handy ATM, though. (Anyone?) -- Rob Browning <[E

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be splits -- I wasn't being very specific in that email. No problem, just wanted to make sure I was thinking straight myself. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A

Re: Thoughts about the stock quote database

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning is going the price database, so he will be posting a > requirements/design doc soon. Getting started on this now, so it's time to talk :> > It may be that gnucash doesn't need to use the price db to store >

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
- - - -> || (gnc_engine <-> ui) (server) || <- - - - - -> || (gnc_engine <-> ui) and we need to be thinking about what we *require* be done where. I.e. does the DB just serve up raw records or do we require it to be able to "do the math"

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
proxy that can handle the messy details of storing arbitrary length strings (if that's even possible) in DBs that don't handle them natively. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mai

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
cryptic passwords like GPG/SSH etc. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
's copyright, etc.) rules, we certainly can't expect them to enforce our licenses when the shoe is on the other foot. This is not a huge issue -- I don't think we have any problems that won't be easy to solve to everyone's satisfaction, but it is important to get t

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
t thinking too much about it) we can use whatever encryption/authentication we want -- possibly even just GPG encrypted chunks :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: DB design document

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
would cause Debian or other free > software distributors to consider gnucash to be non-free in any > way. We cannot and will not be cavalier about software licensing. What Bill said ... twice. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F

Re: Schema

2000-12-16 Thread Rob Browning
laces, etc. At least this is why we've done what we've done up to now. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Schema

2000-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
x27;t have RATIONAL_64 as a type. :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Schema

2000-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
ertainly > have their own table, so there will be an 'explicit' list of them. And I've even thought about adding such a list to gnucash from time to time... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Schema

2000-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My best guess is that it stands for 'debit'. I had always thought it meant d(elta)amount. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-

Re: Schema

2000-12-15 Thread Rob Browning
f the thing you have, and value it's value. Though quantity, taken by itself, is ambiguous, I'm not sure it's so bad when within the context of a split. It would be hard to confuse it with any of the other fields, and it's arguably better than damount. In any case, better names, w

Re: Hardwired path in src/guile/Makefile.am

2000-12-14 Thread Rob Browning
h is available via g-wrap-config. We already have a Makefile var with that value that's determined in configure.in that we use in generating gnucash.c.in. We just need to add it to this Makefile.am. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-10 Thread Rob Browning
[...] > Hopefully I've given you enough pointers to get started. Thanks very much. I glanced at the manpage briefly, and it's quite interesting. I appreciate the pointer, and I'll definitely have to spend a bit of time grokking it. -- Rob Brownin

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-09 Thread Rob Browning
DBMS server, sharing access with other users and > all that. Well it looks like David Merrill may be interested in starting work on the SQL stuff. We'd love to have your help/input if you're interested. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Salutations

2000-12-09 Thread Rob Browning
; problem areas. Designing the database won't be hard (I've done many > financial apps in my time!), and writing SQL will be pretty > straightforward (the engine does all the work, really). I agree. > That's the idea, anyway. :-D Thanks much for the help. -- Rob Br

Re: Salutations

2000-12-09 Thread Rob Browning
le as allowing the user to use the DB they've already deployed, and as we move into the small-business arena, allowing people to stick data in *their* DB will probably become more critical. Though, even there, as long as we have ways to interface with other DBs (i.e. batch push/pull) tha

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
gy out of it. PLUS I won't have to try to > dust off all my pitiful math skills. [...] > rgmerk and others, what think ye? Sounds like an excellent idea to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Salutations

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
interest, and I hope this is the kind of feedback you were looking for. I figure you might also want a little more info about how/where the DB would probably tie in to the code, but I thought I'd let you digest this first :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 5

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 50MB of RAM you're worried about is a *BUG*, and it needs to be > > fixed. Other than that, and some performance work that seems fairly > > Is this a bug we

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Browning
s I mentioned before, this might even mean getting rid of the arbitrary hierarchical frames stuff. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Browning
involve defining the SQL tables we need. I don't see how that involves a "binary data format". I must not understand what you mean. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Browning
shed ways for handling this kind of thing, so we may be able to just leverage those bits. Hard to tell before we really consider the issues carefully... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Browning
is a reasonable > way to store large data sets. XML is a cool technology, but just > because a technology is cool doesn't mean that it's the right tool for > the job. Of course you're welcome to, but why would you waste time on this rather than trying to go forward

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Rob Browning
we get SQL working, so I don't see the point in worrying about anything else... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Stock "price" transactions

2000-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
ction, or even if they just change the date, the quote in the database can be deleted/updated as appropriate, and these "transaction quotes" will need to be distinguishable from "historical quotes" (right now those would be quotes obtained via the online-mechanism) somehow. Aga

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
rd to re-inventing that wheel. So, presuming we keep our current frame of mind, the XML format may very well only be the actual file format, short term. > In any case, what follows is my brief patch which I'd appreciate if > it were put into the CVS. Thanks! Thanks very much for the w

Re: Main windows...

2000-11-21 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That is what GnomeMDI is supposed to do -- allow the user to choose > between windows or tabbed panes. Nice idea. Make everybody happy. We can't have that. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F5

Main windows...

2000-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
y rather my window manager be in charge of things, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Also, there'd be *nothing* wrong with allowing a pane-centric approach as an option, or is that what Gnome-MDI's supposed to do? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 5

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-15 Thread Rob Browning
elpful. I'd also love to have better documentation of related guile low-level issues like what do GH_DEFER/ALLOW_INTS really do, and when do you need to use them? Also perhaps a discussion of the changes that had to be made to Gtk+ with a commentary on why they helped would be really informati

Re: Making a fancy main window like our competitor :)

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
dumped into a designated pane in your custom window. This would, of course, allow all manner of stupid pet tricks for those willing to brave the schemey waters. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-

Re: Making a fancy main window like our competitor :)

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
add something like a much clearer "brokerage" window, etc. Hopefully you get the idea. > You're absolutely right, though - you don't just blindly copy the > features of your competitor's product. That's what got us commercial > bloatwa

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
that stuff available from guile, and then I think about how much less manpower we have to implement it, and *that* leads me to think about g-wrap (or something similar) to help automate the process, and automatically maintain the result... Don't get me wrong. I'd love a solution that

Re: g-wrap and guile-gnome/gtk

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
ts either way. To a substantial extent, I'm not the best person to evaluate this argument, since I have little or no experience with CORBA, though I've done plenty of DO/RPC related work. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 _

Re: g-wrap-0.9.12 is released.

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the record, QIF importing no longer crashes, and I can > successfully build the GnuCash CVS Mainline. Great. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
access struct members directly, you have to write a set of helper functions that are then themselves g-wrappable. This has it's drawbacks, but it also has the fairly substantial advantage of keeping the semantics and implementation of g-wrap simpler than they would be otherwise. As a f

[Ariel Rios ] Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
(in-module module) (c-name c-typedef-name) ;; return-type and parameters as for (function) ) Ex: (user-function PrintFunc (in-module (Gtk)) (parameter in (type-and-name gpointer func_data)) (parameter in (type-and-name gchar* str))) === (typedef new-name (in-module m

g-wrap-0.9.12 is released.

2000-11-12 Thread Rob Browning
I wanted to get this one out (which will hopefully fix the RPM problems) before I dive into integrating the new enum support from Robert. 2000-11-12 Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.in: new version 0.9.12. * rpm/spec.in: fix some bugs I introduced with a

Re: g-wrap-0.9.11 released - please test.

2000-11-08 Thread Rob Browning
directory -- RPM can do that on its own > +- Properly build both g-wrap and g-wrap-devel (info file into -devel) > +- currently only one info file Actually, this mostly answers my above questions, though I still have only a little context for what's going on. In any case, I&#

g-wrap-0.9.11 released - please test.

2000-11-08 Thread Rob Browning
This version should work with Bill's new patch (adds long and long-long). It should also generate a new -devel RPM, though I can't test that. Please let me know if you find mistakes. ftp.gnucash.org:/pub/g-wrap/source/g-wrap-0.9.11.tar.gz 2000-11-08 Rob Browning <[EM

Re: g-wrap and glib container types...

2000-11-07 Thread Rob Browning
ve to deal with your enum patch, but I'll do that while working on this. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

g-wrap and glib container types...

2000-11-06 Thread Rob Browning
ray-destroy g-array) result) or, if we added a cleanup-arg? argument to the converter instead: (let* ((acclist (list acct-1 acct-2 acct-3)) (g-array (frob-accounts (list->glib-glist 'Account* acclist (glib-garray-

gwrap-0.9.10 released (please test).

2000-11-06 Thread Rob Browning
Available at ftp.gnucash.org/pub/g-wrap/source: 2000-11-06 Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * release new version 0.9.10. * guile/guile-types.scm (const-string): fix bug in scm->C conversion. 2000-11-05 Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Another bug

2000-11-05 Thread Rob Browning
r CVS it appears that page splitting has been improved in more > recent code. I'll have another play with it now. Great. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Memory leaks in 1.4.x

2000-11-05 Thread Rob Browning
o the crash you were mailing me > about. I still wonder if we have 'cleanup everywhere we're supposed to. Also, I need to add a 'const option so we can get rid of those silly compiler warnings... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3

Re: Stock Splits, Stock Dividends, Mergers, etc.

2000-11-05 Thread Rob Browning
#x27;s going to be difficult to generate reports that know exactly what really happened... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

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