Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: I would also warn you that if you split the CGI, you then completely lose the benefits of any security, unless you pass the security metadata across from one program to the other. ??? A common way of providing 'security' with http/cgi is to to give

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB engine should stay close; they will need to communicate quite a lot of data in order to negotiate the parts that are to be submitted to the GUI. A "for instance" would be that if the DB does

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: Just to play devil's advocate let me throw another log on the fire: what we really want here is a distributed file system. Before http was invented, these were considered for the web. Unfortunately, nfs was not secure, and afs was propreitary too

Re: SEGFAULT when importing old (binary) files

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Herbert Thoma said: Hi! With the newest cvs version I get a segfault when I try to import a old data file. There's a whole variety of core dumps when importing old files with the current cvs version. Many of these happen when tryig to generate a report. Others

Re: Support for casual users (was: Re: client-server)

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:12:07PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Eugene Tyurin writes: snip Is this really something a casual user who wants to balance his checkbook and know how much he spends on beer can bear? Unless it's totally transparent to them, no. Basically,

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:46:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB engine should stay close; they will need to communicate quite a lot of data in order to negotiate the parts that are to be

Re: SEGFAULT when importing old (binary) files

2000-12-29 Thread Bill Gribble
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:16:28AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a whole variety of core dumps when importing old files with the current cvs version. Many of these happen when tryig to generate a report. Linas, the segfaults when trying to generate reports are a bug in gtkhtml.

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:09:46AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (btw, in 'real' accounting systems, the actual balance is stored, and is not computed on the fly by totalling up all transactions. In gnucash, we total it on the fly because that was the easier thing to do at the time.) In

Re: How do I get the top-level HTML widget from a gnc_report_window?

2000-12-29 Thread Bill Gribble
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:56:45PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Bill, I'm busily working on the pane code, and I need to get the actual widget from a gnc_report_window and shove it in a container. How do I do so? You do it the other way 'round: pass it the container (must be a

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread cbbrowne
Actually, I was looking at RPC/Corba/etc. over TCP, not over UDP. The I got the impression that you were advocating RPC over UDP. Possibly a not-unreasonable impression, but that seems to me to be a too low level perspective to focus on. Better to have a prototype that works badly, and at

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:23:41AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FLAME Can we not flame? Yes, please! Id like to hear someone give a technical overview of how SOAP handles events. I spent last night reading the w3c's SOAP 1.1 spec. Ugh. (Not an editorial comment, just that reading

Re: building gncash-1.4.9

2000-12-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Ok, I just built it (and figured out why it wasn't working for you, I bet). I appears that I needed to downgrade my version of g-wrap, because it wouldn't build with versions even as recent as 0.9.8. I reverted back to 0.9.1 and it built fine. So, I've now got an RPM for you. :) -derek

Re: building gncash-1.4.9

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: Ok, I just built it (and figured out why it wasn't working for you, I bet). I appears that I needed to downgrade my version of g-wrap, because it wouldn't build with versions even as recent as 0.9.8. I reverted back to 0.9.1 and it built fine.

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: I'm trying to keep up with the protocol issues here, although it isn't my strong suit. But for the record, the transport should, imnsho, be kept separate from the database itself. It is a layer to marshall requests to the database and return

Re: SEGFAULT when importing old (binary) files

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Bill Gribble said: Linas, the segfaults when trying to generate reports are a bug in gtkhtml. It's fixed in their CVS version, and (I believe) in the packages that Jim LewisMoss is distributing. The proximate problem is that our reports tend to generate totally

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: In my design, the database will be maintaining the balance. So does that mean gnucash will be a 'real' accounting system? ;-) I haven't seen the schema. Do you store both the 'ledger balance' and the 'trial balance' (i forget what its called),

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:46:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB engine should stay close; they will need to communicate quite a lot of

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:06:02AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: In my design, the database will be maintaining the balance. So does that mean gnucash will be a 'real' accounting system? ;-) I haven't seen the schema. Do you store both the

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 11:38:40AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:46:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB

Re: client-server

2000-12-29 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: Not with each transaction, which is unwieldy in case of edits. current balance, cleared balance and reconciled balance are all stored with the account. Additionally, there is a checkpointing mechanism, whereby the three balances are recorded at

db scripts and design

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
I've made my working directory available for browsing so you can all look at it if you're interested. I had made the design doc available previously, but there is now getting to be more files, including actual gasp sql code. Of course it's not the live directory; it's a copy made hourly from

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread Dave Peticolas
David Merrill writes: Yes, I am trying to do it this way if I can. It is decidedly nontrivial and may not make it into the first release. I am already becoming rather ruthless about cutting things. I *do* keep a complete auditing trail, so changes *can* be reversed. That's very nice. By

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:29:12PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: David Merrill writes: Yes, I am trying to do it this way if I can. It is decidedly nontrivial and may not make it into the first release. I am already becoming rather ruthless about cutting things. I *do* keep a

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread Dave Peticolas
David Merrill writes: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:29:12PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: David Merrill writes: Yes, I am trying to do it this way if I can. It is decidedly nontrivial and may not make it into the first release. I am already becoming rather ruthless about cutting

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:57:56PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: David Merrill writes: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:29:12PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: David Merrill writes: Yes, I am trying to do it this way if I can. It is decidedly nontrivial and may not make it into the first

Re: How do I get the top-level HTML widget from a gnc_report_window?

2000-12-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:56:45PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Bill, I'm busily working on the pane code, and I need to get the actual widget from a gnc_report_window and shove it in a container. How do I do so? You do it the other way 'round:

Re: Support for casual users (was: Re: client-server)

2000-12-29 Thread Dave Peticolas
David Merrill writes: I know that you mean this sincerely. But we really do need to define the overall goal/scope of the project. Much has been implied but fairly little has been actually laid out. 1. Are we going to continue support for the local file store? I think that depends on the

Interface to pass a popup menu to a gnc_report_window

2000-12-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill, I think we discussed before how I'd like to be able to pass a popup menu to a report_window. How difficult would this be to arrange? Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are excited and

Re: Access Controls

2000-12-29 Thread linas
Hi David, Excellent! It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: Lets assume we are using onc-rpc (or corba or xml-rpc or soap). ** GUI user uses mouse to highlight transaction for editing. ** xaccTransBeginEdit() sends rpc/iiop/xml message to server. ** GUI user types in payee,