Re: Null Account and more

2004-08-07 Thread Christopher Browne
Sorry... Another question: The accounts with no name have: act:name/ Instead of what I would expect as: act:name/act:name I'm not an XML buff so that may be correct. If not, I'll look into that problem as well while I'm at it. act:name/ is valid XML; your expectations

Some XML Funniness...

2002-03-27 Thread Christopher Browne
Apparently the XML parser is quite dependent on the positions of elements matching with some sort of implicit ordering. I was planning to en-masse move a bunch of accounts into a hierarchy; I've got a bunch of $USD accounts that I'm not using much anymore, and figured I'd hide them under US

Development Docs

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
Question: Is the Info documentation under active development, and is it being pretty seriously used? If that be the case, then I probably should take the material in .../C/xacc-repdev.sgml and transform it into src/doc/design/reporting.texinfo, right? -- (concatenate 'string "aa454"

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On 09 Apr 2001 11:23:11 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Consider the following control file: And how does one get this control file from client to client, user to user? It obviously has to get copied

Docs for Scheme, Report Development

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
I just bounced a patch _primarily_ for documentation [though with a few Scheme changes] over to the patch list. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/resume.html "Linux! Guerrilla Unix Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On 07 Apr 2001 11:50:48 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I, too, like plan A. However instead of thinking about files, I'd prefer if we did keep things in the abstract 'book'. A book could be a file, it could be a database, it could be a remote

Re: subtotals in reports; accounts with children and transactions

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:50:18 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Charlton Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Christian Stimming wrote: Once again we had the question whether it makes sense at all to have accounts with children in the hierarchy (non-leaf accounts) with

Re: New HTML style features for tables

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:17:45 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a question on how to use the HTML style features. I would like to have a table cell style grand-total as described below, but I would like to have it markup the cell content

Dependancy problems

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On 28 Feb 2001 11:51:08 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: What my mom needs to be able to do is basically run the install command and have it work: rpm -i gnucash.rpm I think the "right answer" for this is probably on its way... On Debian,

Re: Image enabling gnucash?

2001-02-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:33:32 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bakki Kudva [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am new on this list and gnucash. I do have it on my Red Hat 6.2 box and am very impressed with what I see. I am a consultant/integrator in the business document management solutions.

Re: Mortgages?

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:32:49 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:59:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: someone needs to write a 'cash flow' report, which is missing in the current version. Actually isn't it the other

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-26 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:06:35 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: I was referring to the auditing and checkpointing functionality. It *could* be implemented in the engine, but my assumption was that it would be implemented

Re: how to create nice HTML tables in reports?

2001-01-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:38:38 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 21 January 2001 13:09, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Have a look at the development version, There's a bunch of table generation code in it that ALL reports are going to get

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:48:53 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:44:02PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as The world "could use" something akin t

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-15 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:10 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Ariel Rios [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects actually

Transaction Engine

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:24:40 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Transaction Engine

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On 05 Jan 2001 10:38:42 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Notably: a) Balance management [the thing of keeping track of daily balances, or perhaps based on some other granularity]; I think part

GUID Management

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:54:53 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:38:45PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:23:22 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's been rumoured

Audit Logging, User Roles

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:33:50 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Eugene Tyurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:02:24PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: David, a good start... David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We need to determine what level of granularity we

Re: [offtopic] marshalling

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:50:24 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is way off-topic, but ... It's been rumoured that Tyson Dowd said: (Actually M$ has a lot more in the whole language infrastructure thing, since their VM supports multiple language

Re: Access Controls

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:23:22 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: I read this again and changed my mind, and I'll tell you why... When a record is changed, it is moved to the audit table, and a new record is

Locks and Concurrency

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:07:01 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 01:04:01AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: Option 1, no concurrent edits allowed: client 1 - server "I

VarChars

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:54:44 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Patrick Spinler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Merrill wrote: You can't avoid having a limit on text fields, but you can make them very large. The only way to get "unlimited" text fields (or a reasonable approximation of

Re: DB design document

2000-12-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On 21 Dec 2000 14:19:40 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible that the answer is to take the existing engine code and separate the Query API into calls into a corresponding API on the server

Query API

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Dec 2000 13:00:56 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It shouldn't be a situation of the GUI submitting database queries; instead, the GUI should submit _transaction_ queries to the engine

DB API

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Dec 2000 13:20:17 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:00:56PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: This is a reasonable approach, although I think we still want (need?) to be

GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:09:04 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:05:42PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: Obviously, the current algorithm is working. So there is no reason to change it, but I'm doing essentially a new

Re: GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:54:32 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Jean-David Beyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: David Merrill wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:49:02PM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Christopher Browne wrote (in part): This is something that is indeed appropriately

Re: DB design document

2000-12-15 Thread Christopher Browne
On 15 Dec 2000 18:29:12 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: FTR, Debian currently ships OpenSSL (at least in non-us). So, if Debian is willing to ship it, I don't see the problem. We are not creating a derivative work of OpenSSL, we would be using the

Lack of Transaction List

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:20:07 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Transactions aren't entered in the ledger. In fact, there's no global way to get a list of transactions at all. First, an apology for airing just how much I don't know

Balance Checkpoints

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:22:15 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:08:46AM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote: Derek Atkins wrote: David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aisb, I consider the issue of closing the books and

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:49:22 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:35:45PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: David Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] But I do take issue with the argument that period closing, and the

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:13:59 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:57:31AM +, Al Snell wrote: Archives in SQL databases are useful for data mining and OLAP, but are more costly to store - anm archive file can be dumped

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 12:05:03 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent idea. Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just get going and if we start

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:32:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How does all of this affect the `closing the books'. If the books are `close-able' then maybe we do not have to read the last 10 years worth of data in at once? Will the closing

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:03:55 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -Original Message- On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:32:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How does all of this affect the

Re: date stuff in gnucash

2000-11-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:04:51 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: James LewisMoss writes: Dave I tend to think of abstract dates as functions from absolute Dave dates to absolute dates. So, "last monday in a month" would be Dave a function that,

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 12 Nov 2000 18:56:28 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the sense that a pilot

Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

2000-10-31 Thread Christopher Browne
Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The options that leap to mind are: What did you think about the info I got on embedding MySQL and PosgreSQL (did I post that?). I'm not sure I saw that; could be "user error" on my part. If not, I spoke to both camps, and the My

Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

2000-10-21 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:13 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Eugene Tyurin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Please do *not* go the RDBMS way! RDBMS are sexy, "industrial-strength" and stuff. But unless you need to ensure consistency of multiple reads/writes on the same table they only thing

Virtual Packages

2000-10-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:47:49 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as "James A. Treacy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:14:13PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: [Aside: A _VERY COOL_ idea would be to set up a "virtual package" for Debian that migh

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:36:11 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Gary Bickford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Folks who are used to watching Access grind away for hours can be surprised by the performance of a real, tuned ISAM database. I can't see anyone having an accounting system large

Re: Currencies / the accounting equation.

2000-10-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:37:40 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: writes: On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:50:18PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: I think there is an additional issue for transactions. Consider a transfer between two accounts with the

Re: double entry and accounting equation

2000-09-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:14:26 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as "Robert W. Brewer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm using gnucash 1.4.6 under Linux. It seems to be pretty nice for tracking my personal finances. I have some questions though. I'm an accounting newbie, but I've been

Re: Connected graphs [was RE: Dimensions?]

2000-09-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:30:24 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I tend to think that interpreting these kind of complex relationships is not really the domain of the engine at all - it's the domain of the individual reports that interpret the

Re: Dimensions?

2000-09-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:46:27 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: True. I think what I want is to be able to report on the transaction from both clothes and shoes. Others have shown that if I use a well defined tree I can roll-up my account

Re: Dimensions?

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:27:51 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No it is not a split. The shoes cost $50 so I want to have the clothes account debited with $50 and the shoes account debited with $50 and the bank account credited with $50. What

Re: libraries

2000-09-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:39:44 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote: Downloaded 1.5.1 and tries to install - unsatisfied dependencies: libaspell libpspell libgtkhtml Looked on the HelixCode site - couldn't find

Re: What, exactly, does 'cleared' mean (in the context of reconciling)?

2000-09-14 Thread Christopher Browne
On 14 Sep 2000 17:29:37 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Eric Hanchrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm rewriting a tiny piece or two of the documentation, and now I'm looking at the stuff about reconciling your accounts (xacc-recnwin.sgml). I'd like to write an explanation of what the

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:45:52 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Conrad Canterford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: OK, here are my thoughts on why we keep an inventory of shares in Gnucash. Please remember that I am not an accountant, so it is entorely possible I'm completely off track. 1.

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:11:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So is there any validity in multiplying the number of shares I bought in December 1997 at $5.00 a share with the current value of $10.87 a share? If the value is $10.87, then

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On 11 Sep 2000 18:26:22 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Phillip Shelton writes: Then maybe you can answer why you keep the _number_ of shares that you own in any one company. I don't understand what you are asking. Because the _number_ of

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:13:46 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Umm, you lost me here. Selling shares `costs'? Don't I sell the shares for the going rate of $5.02 and thus make about a dollar on each share minus the commission and any rounding

Re: new text format for HTML files

2000-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:54:07 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: "Christophe Guychard" writes: and I think it is possible to use XML to write Gnucash docs. I'm sure it will be more flexible than SGML file format. First because it's more simple (I

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:49:12 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 7 Sep 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, I hope that anyone who encrypts their gnucash data remembers to also encrypt their swap file

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Sep 2000 11:59:50 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why not just use a crypto filesystem? PGP (and gpg) are useful for encrypting files for transmission, but really should not be used for long-term data storage. You should be using

Re: How do I do this? (Accounting question)

2000-08-30 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:02:05 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Conrad Canterford [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have some conceptual problems which I'm hoping someone will be able to explain for me. Since they are not specifically gnucash related, private response may be warranted. My

Re: Spreadsheet exporting?

2000-08-25 Thread Christopher Browne
, and on the reports. There is some scheme code in src/scm/gnumeric that Christopher Browne wrote for generating gnumeric xml data, but it hasn't been hooked into GnuCash yet, afaik. Indeed. I've been plugging away bit by bit at getting code that directly generates HTML pulled _out_ of the reports

Success Fixes...

2000-08-18 Thread Christopher Browne
After installing still-some-further-dev-packages that came available this week in Helix Gnome, GnuCash again became buildable and runnable. With the next result that I have done some testing of the "new reporting code" that uses lists rather than appending strings together. Attached are the

Patch to SCM Stuff...

2000-08-15 Thread Christopher Browne
Unfortunately, I'm having _zero_ luck connecting to cvs.gnucash.org, so I'm depending on local RCS differences to find the changes to be made. The "global" change is that rather than using (string-append) to create the output, I've changed the (html-whatever) functions to instead create lists.

Re: new text format for HTML files?

2000-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:04:52 -, the world broke into rejoicing as Yannick LE NY [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Now, the english HTML files are in SGML. For the next update for french HTML files, do you want it in SGML or in HTML? For me translate the HTML files in french take a long time, if I

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-13 Thread Christopher Browne
On 13 Aug 2000 18:25:16 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne writes: I have installed _all_ the debian packages containing gtkhtml in their names, namely gtkhtml and libgtkhtml3. libgtkhtml-dev 0.5-2 is in unstable. That takes me

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:16:12 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:49:15PM +, Jan Schrage wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: I'm having ill success at getting the latest CVS

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:49:15 -, the world broke into rejoicing as Jan Schrage [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:43AM -0500, [EMAIL

Re: Accounting standard for one month ago

2000-08-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:27:05 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As previously reported, I'm adding a new type of option for relative dates. I'd like to add a relative date for "one month ago". My simplistic definition for "one month ago" on

Dependancies for DocBook Dox

2000-08-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:34:00 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Niklaus Giger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: e) [I'll need help on this one] Integrating this into the existing Makefile.in in a coherent way. Here are some snippets from Makefile.in and Makefile.am (taken from

Re: Australian Cash Granularity

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:57:20 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Ben Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne wrote: For all of this, GnuCash has no need for awareness of the $0.05 granularity. You record the amount spent, and if that is denominated in single "pe

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 comparison

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 majority

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

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 22:32:23 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:05:04PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: 2) The "denominator" may need to be the reciprocal of an integer

Re: gnucash ideas - (fwd)

2000-07-31 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:01:32 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello - I just discovered gnucash which seems pretty cool! I'd like to offer any help I can to the effort but my knowledge of programming is more in the applications language level - like Python,

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:07:36 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Christopher Browne writes: At some point, I should "steal" access to at least the English documentation tree, and turn it into a set of DocBook material. It'll pro

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:48:30 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Gordon Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all. One commentary that I would have with exact values is that in this (and any I imagine) accounting scheme we are representing one side of the story, i.e. we don't care what the

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:42:37 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard, I'm curious (sometimes fatal :-) ) Bill has put together a fairly detailed proposal and implementation using rationals. I haven't seen a similar single discription and corresponding

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities]

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:07:36 +0100, the world broke into rejoicing as Steven Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard Wackerbarth wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: Actually - yes - the stock are purchased through dividend re-investment. The dividend is computed to 1/1,000

Re: Bulk transaction mover (was: question about importing .qif files)

2000-07-26 Thread Christopher Browne
2. Which of those "walks" are worthy of trying to build a GUI in order to make them usable to non-Scheme-gurus? Since I don't know scheme (and only know enough lisp to tweak my .emacs), this is what I would like to see. Feel free to comment, argue, flame, whatever... Query:

Re: Bulk transaction mover (was: question about importing .qif files)

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:46:47 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This sounds like a restricted sort of "find and replace" operation. It would be a handy thing to have on its own, not just as a part of a QIF importer. Some

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 18:17:35 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard Wackerbarth writes: Actually, price is a rational and quantity is an integer. (At least in the pumps that I helped program) I'm not talking about gasoline anymore, but about prices

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 09:29:49 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines the

Re: Multi-Userness

2000-07-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Jul 2000 22:00:21 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: "cbb" == Christopher Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cbb A way around this would be to have ONE process devoted to cbb doing database updates, which would receive up

Multi-Userness

2000-07-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On 17 Jul 2000 23:30:12 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- "jr" == Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jr Is GNUCash multi-user? Won't different users store their jr accounts in different

Re: Types of reports required

2000-07-15 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 23:45:33 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Poldi Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Am Son, 02 Jul 2000 schrieb Robert: To get a handle on the reporting features that we need, I've spent some time playing with Quicken to see what the competition offers :) After

Re: denominators

2000-07-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:17:52 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, 08 Jul 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: One of the big issues seems to be whether we have just one denominator for a commodity, or many. Let each commodity to have its own

Re: please check sample account-adding code in Perl

2000-07-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Jul 2000 01:15:56 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Rob Browning, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: Swig will be going away as a "normally compiled" bit. It'll still be available

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Jul 2000 09:10:23 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree that rather than describing the properties of a currency for the "denominator" of an amount, we should simply reference the currency.

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:01:57 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No it is not. That is adding "apples" and "oranges". No, it isn't. Adding one "apple"

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On 05 Jul 2000 15:36:27 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I think that this is one weakness in the present approach to report generation. I would prefer to see an implementation that does

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-07-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:18:44 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: b) One that is strongly tied to the "commodity." Thus, you have: struct gnc_commodity_value { gint6

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-30 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 07:13:03 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Randolph Fritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 01:19:03PM +0200, Ralf Gorholt wrote: perhaps I understand something wrong but I think one of the purposes of operator overloading in C++ is to be able to

Account Samples...

2000-06-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:28:51 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Clark Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Something caught my attention that deserves praise: At least in the versions of Quicken that I've used, there's a limit to the size of catagory names, and "sub-catagories" are even more

Re: Patch to transaction balancing

2000-06-24 Thread Christopher Browne
On 24 Jun 2000 10:29:57 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This patch against the current 1.4 CVS tree fixes an outstanding problem with transaction balancing. When setting a split's value, the number of shares is calculated as Q=T/I. However, since

Re: Requirements for an integer-based value representation

2000-06-24 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:01:42 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sorry it's taken me a while to reply, but better now than when we implement anything. Everything you've written so far makes sense, but I've just got a couple of comments on

Re: Requirements for an integer-based value representation

2000-06-24 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 21:42:22 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: Oh, and one other thing. Performance when doing monetary arithmetic is currently not an issue. As far as I can see, this isn't

Re: New to GnuCash and more...

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:15:15 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:04:32 -0500, Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Rob Walker wrote: Bill This is basically like a Quicken category; as you

Re: New to GnuCash and more...

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:25:07 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Sean Millichamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Rob Walker wrote: Richard Actually, income and expenses get "closed" at the end of the Richard accounting period by transferring their balance to the equity

Re: Accounts/catagories, splits, and autonumbering...

2000-06-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:57:19 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Kevin Finn writes: While I'm writing, here's something else that might exist in Gnucash b ut haven't found yet. Is there a way to type in dollars and cents without typ in

Re: Guile 1.4 Released

2000-06-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:50:13 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd seen the fact that Guile 1.4 existed mentioned somewhere, but it's now announced on freshmeat. Release announcement is at:

Re: Return on investment of stocks/mutual funds

2000-06-21 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:34:14 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:09:02 -0500 (CDT), Dave Dribin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dave I've just downloaded GnuCash 1.4.0, and I'm very impressed! I Dave am very interested in tracking

Re: RFC : Correcting some problems in rounding/number handling

2000-06-21 Thread Christopher Browne
On 21 Jun 2000 10:46:42 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: After discussion with some of the other developers, it is becoming clear that most if not all of the problems people are having with rounding and fractional cents are because, in fact, gnucash

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