Re: gnucash gnome2/Gtk2 Windows

2005-10-24 Thread Nikos Charonitakis
2005/10/17, J M Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A word of encouragement. Having only now come across gnucash, I'd just like to point out that there might well be a worthwhile demand for a Windows port in UK, among people here who have been, or soon will be, abandoned by Quicken and, like me,

Re: QOF 0.6.0 released!

2005-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 24 October 2005 1:01 am, David Hampton wrote: On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 15:45 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: QOF - Query Object Framework - library to add a query engine to C applications with generic XML backend. A SQL database is not needed; any collection of C/C++ objects can act as

Re: Failing automake when trying to build version from CVS

2005-10-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 02 October 2005 9:09 am, Tor Harald Thorland wrote: An example. When i put libgwrapguile-dev for install, synaptics tells me it will remove g-wrap libgwrap-runtime0-dev and it will install libgwrapguile 1 in addition to the libgwrapguile-dev. That is correct. You need:

Re: [gnucash-de] Systemfehler beim Herunte rladen der Börsenkurse

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Thoma
Peter Meier wrote: Hallo zusammen, bisher hat das Aktualisieren von Börsenkurse immer funktioniert. Jetzt bekomme ich folgende Fehlermeldung: Beim Herunterladen der Börsenkurse ist ein Systemfehler ausgetreten. Dieser Fehler kommt bei mir dann vor, wenn es keine Kurse mehr für ein Wertpapier

Re: [gnucash-de] Systemfehler beim Herunte rladen der Börsenkurse

2005-10-24 Thread Herbert Thoma
Oops, wrong language list on first reply ... Herbert Thoma wrote: Peter Meier wrote: Hallo zusammen, bisher hat das Aktualisieren von Börsenkurse immer funktioniert. Jetzt bekomme ich folgende Fehlermeldung: Beim Herunterladen der Börsenkurse ist ein Systemfehler ausgetreten. Dieser

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Chris, ** Changesets ** ** Centralized vs. Distributed ** In summary, I think there are two main reasons for looking further than SVN for SCM software. 1) Changesets are a big convenience for all developers. 2) Distributed SCM lets fringe developers benefit from a real SCM, too.

Re: gnucash gnome2/Gtk2 Windows

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
J M Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A word of encouragement. Having only now come across gnucash, I'd just like to point out that there might well be a worthwhile demand for a Windows port in UK, among people here who have been, or soon will be, abandoned by Quicken and, like me, would

Re: Failing automake when trying to build version from CVS

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Tor Harald Thorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll installed Ubuntu 5.10., and if I enable the community supported repo's, then all the packages i'll need are there. Ready to be installed. On fedora, i'll had to add a lot of different repos to add the packages, and in the end, that killed my

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:37:52PM +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote: Dear Chris, ** Changesets ** ** Centralized vs. Distributed ** In summary, I think there are two main reasons for looking further than SVN for SCM software. 1) Changesets are a big convenience for all developers. 2)

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2005-24-10 at 10:53 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: The actual state of things is that there are *very* few developers, and I think the survival of gnucash depends on attracting more. That doesn't necessarily require a distributed model, but I think one key step is providing the

Re: G2 Testing - Scheduled Transactions

2005-10-24 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:23:13AM -0400, Volker Englisch wrote: Volker, thanks! This is quite helpful! :) | Last not least (this is not related to SX) there is a menu option Misc | -- Test available on the Accounts window. When selected this displays | a window with the text | 'testing |

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart D. Gathman
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: I thought this was the main point of SVN, and the motivation for replacing CVS - that it has atomic changesets that affect many files. Please see: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#changesets for a rather biased, but not unhelpful answer.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:38:35PM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Chris Shoemaker wrote: I thought this was the main point of SVN, and the motivation for replacing CVS - that it has atomic changesets that affect many files. Please see:

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills allows me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted. I'm not sure SVN meets that criterion, but CVS does. That was the main motivation for us moving from SCCS to

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:20:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: The problem is that historically the commiters have been restricted to a trusted group of people, I disagree that that's the problem, but, assuming you're right... How's that strategy been working for GnuCash over the past 3 years?

CVS/SVK/etc.

2005-10-24 Thread Dan Widyono
Is anyone proposing a specific re-implementation scenario? I can see a lot of theorizing on both sides, but nobody saying let's try it *this* way, with commits looking like *this*, and patches would be submitted like *this*, and *this* would be the release trunk/tree/whatever, controlled by

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Chris Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A very important feature for me is that the repository format stills allows me to extract the latest version of things if it gets corrupted. I'm not sure SVN meets that criterion, but

Re: Error building gnucash 1.8.12 on OpenSuSE 10.0

2005-10-24 Thread Christian Krause
Hi, On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:08:16 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: Rauch Christian schrieb: Christian Stimming schrieb: But still one question remains just for my understanding. Why is the argument --build sufficient for 1.8.11, but 1.8.12 needs all three on the same building system without

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread David Hampton
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:42 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: If you'd like some more detailed info, I'd recommend: [5] for the heart of the issue in concise terms [6] for an good overview of the main SCM debate [8] for an overview of SCM softwares available [1, 2, 7] for some informative Arch

Re: CVS/SVK/etc.

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:03:08PM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote: Is anyone proposing a specific re-implementation scenario? I can see a lot of theorizing on both sides, but nobody saying let's try it *this* way, with commits looking like *this*, and patches would be submitted like *this*, and

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:20:15PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:52 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: It kind of makes me want to respond like others have [1], but I want to remain constructive. If you wanted to remain constructive you wouldn't have posted that URL.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 10/25/05, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that historically the commiters have been restricted to a trusted group of people, but there are a few new developers who have not yet been given commit access. Honestly I can only think of one developer in particular. That

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Derek, I apologize for dredging up the past like that. I said I wanted to remain constructive, but my actions said otherwise. I wish I could take it back. I /will/ try to exercise more self-control in the future. Please forgive me. I

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Josh Sled
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: | Well, I think *all* development should be on branches. Ick. Now we have to fight about the benefits of Continuous Integration. :) (Strangely, its argument [1] has a similar form: [...] fundamental shift to the whole development

Re: Error building gnucash 1.8.12 on OpenSuSE 10.0

2005-10-24 Thread Rauch Christian
Christian Krause wrote: Because of all these informations I've come to the conclusion that gnucash delivers an outdated or broken config.guess, because the tarball was prepared (especially the autogenerated autotools-depended files were built) on a distribution with a strange config.guess. From

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:59:18PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: | Well, I think *all* development should be on branches. Ick. Now we have to fight about the benefits of Continuous Integration. :) I can't tell if you're saying

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:48:22PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Chris Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS: I still don't agree with your premise that the gnucash project needs to radically change its development processes in order to increase the number of fringe developers. Historically

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:20:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: Quoting Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My point is not so much distributed is better than centralized, as it is lower the barriers to new developers by letting them share code early and often. Distributed SCM is *one* way to do that.

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread David Hampton
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:37 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Maybe that's a reasonable criteria for giving someone commit access to the OneTrueBuild. But, that's not reasonable criteria for giving someone access to convenient SCM. That's like saying: We love for people to join us on this trip

Re: Switching from CVS to Subversion: test svn repo available

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:37:07PM -0400, David Hampton wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:37 -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: Maybe that's a reasonable criteria for giving someone commit access to the OneTrueBuild. But, that's not reasonable criteria for giving someone access to convenient