Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Dave Peticolas
Paul Fenwick writes: > > --8/pVXlBMPtxfSuJG > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > G'day Dave, Rob and GnuCashers, > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:45:23PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > Rob Browning is wor

Re: Multi-Userness

2000-07-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Jul 2000 22:00:21 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > "cbb" == Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cbb> A way around this would be to have ONE process devoted to > cbb> doing database updates, which would receive upd

Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Dave, Rob and GnuCashers, On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:45:23PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > Rob Browning is working on this aspect, though it was for the current > version of Quote.pm, and not 1.0. The plan here is to eliminate the > use of the swig bindings in gnc-prices and instead imple

Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Dave Peticolas
Paul Fenwick writes: > My main problem with how quotes are handled in GnuCash is that > we have to call a separate external script (gnc-prices or > equiv) to get the information. It would be much much nicer > to simply select a button in GnuCash and have it run the update. > This should certainl

Re: missing

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: > > I specifically said "some" rational arithmetic. Prices, by their definition, > > will require the equivalent of rational arithmetic within the implementation of > > the operations that use them. > > No I still disagree - rational arithmetic is not necessary.

Re: fractional parts

2000-07-18 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: > I have a question for the gnucash developer community regarding commodities, > stocks etc. and how they are priced, traded, listed, whatever. > > I have always seen such things listed/priced/traded as single fractions, i.e., > > a single stock would be "liste

Re: quotes

2000-07-18 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Dave, On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:16:55PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > Hi Paul, I just noticed you released Finance::Quote 1.0, congratulations! Thank-you. > I also noticed you now do currency quotes (drool). Any chance we can roll > the new Quote module into the 1.5 series of GnuCash?

Re: 1.4.2 No build problems on Solaris.

2000-07-18 Thread Dave Peticolas
Keith Refson writes: > In the midst of all of these problem postings, it's worth reporting > that I built gnucash 1.4.2 on Solaris 8/sparc without a hitch, and it > works perfectly. Excellent! Thanks for the report. > Well done to Dave and the other developers for ironing out the > problems. I

Re: fractional parts

2000-07-18 Thread Jon Trowbridge
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Terry wrote: > but what about something like: > > 234 3/8 1/5 == 234 + 3/8 + 1/5 USD > > That could equivalently be expressed as > > 234 23/40 > > But that's not my point - I have never seen the use of more than one fraction. > > My question - has an

fractional parts

2000-07-18 Thread Terry
I have a question for the gnucash developer community regarding commodities, stocks etc. and how they are priced, traded, listed, whatever. I have always seen such things listed/priced/traded as single fractions, i.e., a single stock would be "listed" as : 234 1/8 or 234 3/8 or sugar sells

Re: missing

2000-07-18 Thread Terry
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > > > > > Seriously, some people are focusing on the wrong aspect of the problem. > > > The math will require some rational arithmetic. However, the real problem is > > > > No I don't t

RE: Gnucash 1.4.2 build problem

2000-07-18 Thread Tom Corner
Robert, 1000 thanks. I found libguile.so.6.0.0 in /usr/local/lib and it had the missing identifiers too. In the process, however, I located a spurious copy of libguile in /usr/local/gnome/lib. I deleted these and now the compile completes successfully and gnucash appears to be working. Thanks

Re: List is getting busy

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Gribble
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, we probably need a gnucash-user list now. I have just created gnucash-user and gnucash-announce. See http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ to subscribe. I'll change the website pointers later today and send an announcement to the gnu

Re: problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There's been a numbered released very recently. They may not have a > > binary for it yet. > > gtkhtml is shipped in the gnucash-1.5 source tree, in the lib/ > directory. You just need to configure and install it

Re: someone is on vacation...

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Gribble
Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would someone who has control of the mailing list mind removing > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Whoever this is seems to be on vacation and > has a script sending out an "I'm on vacation" e-mail for every message he > receives. Done. The list-admin was on vacatio

Gnucash 1.4.2 build problem

2000-07-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Tom Corner writes: > Hello, > > Let me try this again. I am using gnucash-1.4.2, guile-1.3.4, and > g-wrap-0.9.4. This is said to be correct. > > The build completes to the final step. Then it blows up in the final > link with undefined references to the following symbols: > > scm_as

Re: problems building fresh checkout.

2000-07-18 Thread Bill Gribble
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's been a numbered released very recently. They may not have a > binary for it yet. gtkhtml is shipped in the gnucash-1.5 source tree, in the lib/ directory. You just need to configure and install it before you configure gnucash-1.5. Rea

1.4.2 No build problems on Solaris.

2000-07-18 Thread Keith Refson
In the midst of all of these problem postings, it's worth reporting that I built gnucash 1.4.2 on Solaris 8/sparc without a hitch, and it works perfectly. Well done to Dave and the other developers for ironing out the problems. It's no longer necessary to use bash for the configure. Can I sugges

Gnucash 1.4.2 build problem

2000-07-18 Thread Tom Corner
Hello, Let me try this again. I am using gnucash-1.4.2, guile-1.3.4, and g-wrap-0.9.4. This is said to be correct. The build completes to the final step. Then it blows up in the final link with undefined references to the following symbols: scm_async_clock scm_makdbl scm_newsmob So as a klu

Re: transaction record; jump to blank

2000-07-18 Thread Jason Rennie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > But first, I need to know whether you mean the next blank split line > in the transaction or the blank transaction at the bottom of the > register? GNUCash 1.4.2 moves to the next blank split line when I am in one of the multi-line modes and I hit 'Enter'. I'd like 'E

someone is on vacation...

2000-07-18 Thread Jason Rennie
Would someone who has control of the mailing list mind removing [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Whoever this is seems to be on vacation and has a script sending out an "I'm on vacation" e-mail for every message he receives. Jason D Rennie www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ MIT: (617) 253-5339 [EMAI