Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Phillip J Shelton
Hello, I have not had any experience in using any of the major non-free money software, and have only used one small shareware to mimic my bank statements. So the following is probably trivial but please bear with me, I would like some clarification. I have been watching the to-ing and throw-ing

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rolando Roman writes: > i dont see printing availibility in gnucash, is that true? 1.4.x doesn't have printing. 1.5.x has report printing, as well as check printing. Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:54:52 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 11:25 AM 8/2/00 -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You > > > can't add or subtract them, but

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You > > > can't add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible. > > > Conversion between them is possible without an explicit conversio

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Rolando Roman
i dont see printing availibility in gnucash, is that true? ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:32:44 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You can't > > add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible.

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Buddha Buck
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You can't > > add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible. Conversion > > between them is possible without an explicit conversion ratio -- the ratio > > is implicit. They p

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You can't > add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible. Conversion > between them is possible without an explicit conversion ratio -- the ratio > is implicit. They probably don'

Re: the neverending rational vs. integer (they're really the same) saga

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > gnc_numeric gnc_numeric_add(gnc_numeric a, gnc_numeric b, > > gint64 denom, gnc_numeric_round_t how); > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > The problem is that the calls to do simple things like "add"

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Buddha Buck
At 11:25 AM 8/2/00 -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You > > can't add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible. > >Is it true that you would *never* want to add/subtract such >commodities? I can't t

Re: More Ideas?

2000-08-02 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:23:24AM -0400, John Strange wrote: > I just ran into some free time and started using GNUcash, so far so good.. > I just wanted to toss around a few ideas that I've seen and think would be a > good idea. There's a projects.html file in the doc/ directory. Have a look a

Re: the neverending rational vs. integer (they're really the same) saga

2000-08-02 Thread Jason Rennie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You will probably not need any 'if' statements because you KNOW that > the numbers came from the same source and must, therefore, be in the > same currency. It's easy to pick at someone else's proposal when you yourself don't have an explicit proposal. Every time I

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Jason Rennie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You > can't add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible. Is it true that you would *never* want to add/subtract such commodities? I can't think of any cases where you would want to, but shoul

Re: Why are we hardcoding glib-config and gnome-config?

2000-08-02 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, below is a snippet of gnucash's configure.in. I'm trying to > figure out why GLIB_CONFIG_BIN and GNOME_CONFIG_BIN are explicitly > set in line 180 and line 203 respectively. Is this a bug? It works > fine for me with those two lines comme

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 06:53:18 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > > > > Placing this unification code inside the addition code is a computational > > > burden on EVERY addition, even the vast major

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Buddha Buck
At 06:53 AM 8/2/00 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: >Here, I think the question degenerates into "What is a commodity?" > >You and I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" as two different commodities. OTOH, >I believes that Bill views them as the same commodity and feels that it is >permissible to add

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > You want the denominator in EACH account to be set so that 1/D > > represents exactly the smallest difference in allowable values for > > that account. > > Sure. That makes sense. There may be some situations where > determi

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > > Placing this unification code inside the addition code is a computational > > burden on EVERY addition, even the vast majority (if not all) of the > > additions which are performed on ammounts from the same account that are > > already in the sam