Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
David Harrison wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:51:16 -0700, David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me do a rewrite and get back to you. Here is the other page on depreciation schemes David, good stuff. I updated the web pages with the new text, plus some modifications I made, take a look and

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I fully intend to have online communication, in both directions, it's just that offline is easiest to create first. :-) *nods* 2. Pilot-link can query the GnuCash data file directly using QOF and a similar map. Please do not assume that the

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I started on this Palm-Invoice saga, the use of an XML interchange file format was discussed. After looking at the current format, I am having to discount the hierarchy based on AccountGroup because it cannot be easily written by

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 3:36 pm, you wrote: I'm wondering if we should look at bonobo as the interface between different QOF applications? This would give us both online and offline data interchange. I just dont know how much work it would be, as I know next to nothing about bonobo. Well,

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Oaf is not a direct dependency, it's an indirect dependency. Gnucash does not use it, but GtkHtml does (and it's possible that guppi does, too). But Gnucash doesn't use it directly. Bonobo is similar -- an indirect dependency, pulled in by the rest of the gnome libraries that we use. -derek

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 3:48 pm, you wrote: While I'm not against this, I'm concerned that it will add more code to gnucash that may not be used much. Perhaps it will. I don't know. But I'd like to make as few changes to the gnucash xml data file format as possible. It's more of a format

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Josh Sled
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:48, Neil Williams wrote: The main difference is that I would like to use the XML for data interchange between QOF applications and to make the format more like a simple bag than a tree: bag vs. tree isn't really the problem, is it? What's wrong with your palm

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 5:15 pm, Josh Sled wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:48, Neil Williams wrote: The main difference is that I would like to use the XML for data interchange between QOF applications and to make the format more like a simple bag than a tree: bag vs. tree isn't really

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 29 October 2004 3:48 pm, you wrote: While I'm not against this, I'm concerned that it will add more code to gnucash that may not be used much. Perhaps it will. I don't know. But I'd like to make as few changes to the gnucash xml data file

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:59:29 -0300, Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, good stuff. I updated the web pages with the new text, plus some modifications I made, take a look and let me know what you think. You may need to reload the pages to clear you cache to see the changes (I had to

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The way that we have made the distinction between personal and business makes this a difficult definition. On the personal side, your definition is correct. On the business side it's not. Perhaps we need two different concepts guids, one for personal

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: David Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The way that we have made the distinction between personal and business makes this a difficult definition. On the personal side, your definition is correct. On the business side it's not. Perhaps we need two different concepts guids,

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Jon Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uh, Derek, you are joking, right? This issue was brought up in the beginning of this thread by David. But, I'll put the links in again. http://www.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2003-August/009760.html

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: Ok, I know this comment will bite me when I run for president in 20 years, but I flip-flop! :) Honestly, tho, I was mostly joking. But it does sound like we want somewhat separate text for personal vs. business in this area. Perhaps we need separate sections/chapters

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:30:46 -0300, Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I think it is better to be accurate/complex than simple/wrong. So, I changed the definition to your ...expensing capital purchases over time Just nit-picking, but shouldn't it be Depreciation is the accounting

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:39:28 -0300, Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Atkins wrote: Ok, I know this comment will bite me when I run for president in 20 years, but I flip-flop! :) Honestly, tho, I was mostly joking. But it does sound like we want somewhat separate text