Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Summerfield wrote: As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. Whoops, it's extremely rusty. mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. and in PL/1 money fixed dec(11,3). :-O QUICK! Let me get you a wheelchair. :-D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:13, John Summerfield wrote: > bob parker wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > >>As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > >>Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > >>mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > >>and in PL/1 > >>money fixed dec(11

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

bob parker wrote: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. Whoops, it's extremely rusty. mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. and in PL/1 money fixed dec(11,3). COBOL, such a beutiful language! If a total overflows the dest

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:21, William Ballard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:07:31PM +1000, bob parker wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > > > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > > > Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > > > mony PIC S9(11v3

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:07:31PM +1000, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > > > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > > Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > > mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > > and in PL/1 > > money fixed dec(11,3). >

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > and in PL/1 > money fixed dec(11,3). COBOL, such a beutiful language! If a total overflows the destination field

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:20:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >I have no objection to the C, but I'm a bit put off by the astonishing > >number of Gnome libraries. > I guess if you're using Gnome anyway you don't care. Gnome 1.x libraries. That's why I don't use it. Las

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Hasler wrote: John Summerfield writes: Oh, it bothers me a bit that gnucash is written in C. A witches brew of C and Scheme, actually. C isn't designed to handle money. Or text. I have no objection to the C, but I'm a bit put off by the astonishing number of Gnome libraries.

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Summerfield writes: > Oh, it bothers me a bit that gnucash is written in C. A witches brew of C and Scheme, actually. > C isn't designed to handle money. Or text. I have no objection to the C, but I'm a bit put off by the astonishing number of Gnome libraries. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

William Ballard wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:07:10AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: I'm sure it will work for some businesses, but I suspect not for many. Isn't there some PHP + PostGres accounting package already in Debian? Is that SQL Ledger? That's what businesses need, not a Goo

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

William Ballard writes: > Isn't there some PHP + PostGres accounting package already in Debian? Is > that SQL Ledger? SQL-Ledger is Perl+Postgresql. It has it's own problems. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 09:07:10AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > I'm sure it will work for some businesses, but I suspect not for many. Isn't there some PHP + PostGres accounting package already in Debian? Is that SQL Ledger? That's what businesses need, not a Gooey. Also GnuCash is missing

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Paul Scott wrote: matt zagrabelny wrote: Whatever you can contribute will help. I've never maintained one either but we now have a team of four. I will say more off list. Oh. There's another Matt Z I know who is a dd. I'm less confused now. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Paul Scott wrote: John Summerfield wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I probably will and the previous maintainer suggested this might be a good project for a team which is the other reason I posted here. I have been programming for many years but I am not yet a Debian developer. I will also post that r

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

David P James wrote: On Sun 8 August 2004 03:24, William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience or comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash? GnuCash is the best o

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Katipo wrote: There is an associated German developed package called hbci-gnucash, or gnucash-hbci you might like to check out in association with this, also. Thanks, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those pac

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

matt zagrabelny wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 02:08, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) Anyone interested in helping me maintain GnuCash and/or GnuCash-doc? i really enjoy gnucash and would hate to see it not actively maintained on debian. ive never maintained a package before but would be interested

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Summerfield wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I probably will and the previous maintainer suggested this might be a good project for a team which is the other reason I posted here. I have been programming for many years but I am not yet a Debian developer. I will also post that request at debian-d

Re: OT: Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 11:24:42 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a very good 30-second tutorial on using finance-management > software. Anyone know of a five-minute version? I'm looking for > something that explains (briefly) the difference between double-entry > accounting ve

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:10:36AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > The only problem with GnuCash was the U/I: it made it exceedingly > awkward to work with large #s of accounts, because of all the modal > dialogs to enter them. Nothing wrong with the concept. As you said, what Money/Quicken cal

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On 2004-08-08T07:59:50-0500, John Hasler wrote: > There > is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > system suitable for small business. How is GNU Enterprise (http://www.gnuenterprise.org/) doing these days? /Allan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

OT: Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:50:43AM -0400, David P James wrote: GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. For personal finance I use KMyMoney2, since conceptually it's far more like Quicken on Windows (and probably MS Money as well). I fo

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:50:43AM -0400, David P James wrote: > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. > > I don't find GnuCash terribly usable for personal finances. The > double-entry bookeeping that GnuCash uses doesn't work very well with > personal finances. In

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun 8 August 2004 03:24, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience > > or comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash? > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that is

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 02:08, Paul Scott wrote: > I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and > GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html > have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing w

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

[John Hasler] > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. :) > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks > clone. It would be in

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Hasler wrote: William Ballard writes: GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system suitable for small business. It will n

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:14:10PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [John Hasler] > > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. > > Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. :) > > > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > > system

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:59:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > William Ballard writes: > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. > > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There > is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting

New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

William Ballard writes: > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks clone

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Paul Scott wrote: Like many applications it has been growing in capabilities for some time: "If you've been looking for a way to manage your personal or business finances using Free Software, you've found it!" 10. Multiple Currencies

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

John Summerfield wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it take

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those pac

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience or > comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash? GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those packages but I thought