Renaming subroutines

2001-01-18 Thread Conrad Canterford
I'm wondering what the policy is with renaming subroutines. My most recent change moved stuff from the status bar to a new summary bar on the main window. However, the routine that refreshes this stuff is still called "gnc_ui_refresh_statusbar". For consistency and understandability, the current

Re: Renaming subroutines

2001-01-18 Thread Dave Peticolas
Conrad Canterford writes: I'm wondering what the policy is with renaming subroutines. My most recent change moved stuff from the status bar to a new summary bar on the main window. However, the routine that refreshes this stuff is still called "gnc_ui_refresh_statusbar". For consistency

Re: embedded gnc_report_windows and panes

2001-01-18 Thread Bill Gribble
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 03:12:57PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: I should have realised this earlier, but your report window code shoves the options dialog in a gtk_paned container even when the report is itself embedded in another container (in the case of panes, in another gtk_paned).

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 had a better debugging infrastructure. Agreed. /me hacked the g-wrap

backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread Linas Vepstas
Subject: backend-sql, network hacks Hi Derek, David, I wanted to touch base provide status coordinate a bit. Over the last weekend, I revived the sql code, and hope to work on it some more next weekend. Since this overlaps and maybe clashes with where you were going, I wanted to talk.

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: And I am completely lost in scheme. I can find my way around in C but am not a C programmer. I'm perfectly willing to learn, but be prepared to deal with it. I've been doing SQL on Oracle for many years now, and my C is very rusty. :-) So iow

Re: Installation problems GnuCash1.4.9.tgz on SuSE 6.4 Solved/Inf

2001-01-18 Thread James LewisMoss
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:00:01 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas Dave, I guess your the maintainer ... is there an easy way of linas setting up a 'make realclean' so that config.cache is erased linas and autogen.sh get rerun automagically? 'make clean' is not linas enough after

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:17:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: But I think using stored procedures in some places will be advantageous - particularly when doing checkpointing, recording the audit trail, and that sort of thing. It will be

accrint (Financial library)

2001-01-18 Thread Phillip J Shelton
This is the description of the function accrint FUNCTION=ACCRINT SYNTAX=ACCRINT(issue,first_interest,settlement,rate,par,frequency,basis) DESCRIPTION ACCRINT calculates the accrued interest for a security that pays periodic interest. The rate is the annual rate of the security and par is the

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: But I think using stored procedures in some places will be advantageous - particularly when doing checkpointing, recording the audit trail, and that sort of thing. It will be much faster as well as more robust and scalable. Please see

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:30:04PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: And I am completely lost in scheme. I can find my way around in C but am not a C programmer. I'm perfectly willing to learn, but be prepared to deal with it. I've been doing

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: But I think using stored procedures in some places will be advantageous - particularly when doing checkpointing, recording the audit trail, and that sort of thing. It will be much faster as well as more robust and scalable. Well, if you could

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure you did a make clean or at least an "rm src/guile/gnc.c" before rebuilding? This looks like you don't have a gnc.c built by 1.1.8... You're right, it wasn't. The problem is that I had manually renamed libgw-runtime.so.0.0.0 to

gnome-print

2001-01-18 Thread Jonathan David Wheelhouse
Hi First, thanks for a great app; I use it daily (and drive my wife nuts asking for receipts after she's done the shopping). I'm a programmer and am interested in hacking on gnucash (although I have a mainframe background (Cobol, JCL, database stuff) so C, automake, make, autoconf, etc confuse

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Kegel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A view of the history and consideration of some practical matters may shed some light. It did, thanks. -- Even if all the gnucash scheme coders died tommorrow, there's so much scheme code that it would be a massive undertaking to re-write it. -- Form

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Normally, in Debian at least, I'd add cmds to the debian/rules file to create symlinks like that before building the package, if the "make install" step didn't do that. Can we do that in the spec.in? Also, for whatever reason, "make install" here

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-18 Thread linas
Hi Dan, A view of the history and consideration of some practical matters may shed some light. Historically (about 3 years ago), the idea of scripting for gnucash was discussed at length. I personally was advocating perl, not because it was better, or that I liked it more, but because I knew

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-18 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At this point the only remaining problem is that g-wrap installs libgw-runtime.so.0.0.0 but there is no symlink from .so.0 - .so.0.0.0 so guile can't find it. However, this version of the .so _does_ appear to work. Normally, in Debian at least, I'd

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-18 Thread linas
I'll say this only once, very quietly, since I don't want a flame war; but personally I've never been a fan of Java. Its slowww, buggy, crashes a lot, and has trouble playing nice with others. I've always been intrigued by the fact that the (vast?) majority of the open source community have

Re: $ curency symbol, mouse wheel

2001-01-18 Thread linas
Bug report: Forwarded message: Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:11:13 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In the balance sheet, "net" in the lowest line always has the $ symbol. Are the other currency symbols displayed correctly? As far as I noticed, yes. - GnuCash

gnome-print

2001-01-18 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes: Hi First, thanks for a great app; I use it daily (and drive my wife nuts asking for receipts after she's done the shopping). I'm glad you like it! I'm a programmer and am interested in hacking on gnucash (although I have a mainframe background

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: Well, I just (finally) got gnucash working again (with much thanks to Rob for helping me with getting g-wrap working). Now that I can actually play again, I was planning to integrate the RPC code in and see if I could build a client/server. But I

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Well, I just (finally) got gnucash working again (with much thanks to Rob for helping me with getting g-wrap working). Now that I can actually play again, I was planning to integrate the RPC code in and see if I could build a client/server. But I don't know when I'll actually have the time to

Re: Installation problems GnuCash1.4.9.tgz on SuSE 6.4 Solved/Inf

2001-01-18 Thread linas
Dave, I guess your the maintainer ... is there an easy way of setting up a 'make realclean' so that config.cache is erased and autogen.sh get rerun automagically? 'make clean' is not enough after installing/upgrading lbraries, --linas It's been rumoured that Meer van Houtum, P.G. van der

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-18 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 12:48:04PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: Well, I just (finally) got gnucash working again (with much thanks to Rob for helping me with getting g-wrap working). Now that I can actually play again, I was planning to integrate the RPC code in and see if I could build a

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-18 Thread Dan Kegel
We hear and respect your opinion. Java is definitely too slow still to be used for most client-side work, it's piggy with RAM, and the JITs are still buggy. Where speed is not the primary concern, Java has a lot going for it, IMHO. Turn off the JIT and it's pretty stable these days. One of