Re: Running unit tests under valgrind

2012-05-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:42 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On May 21, 2012, at 8:23 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: >>> >>> On May 21, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Donald Allen wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon

Re: Running unit tests under valgrind

2012-05-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald, > > Donald Allen writes: > >>>> Do you guys run the whole system under valgrind (John is obviously >>>> right about tests on the parts don't necessarily say anything about >>>> t

Re: Running unit tests under valgrind

2012-05-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:10 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On May 21, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Phil Longstaff >> wrote: >>> Yes.  A lot of the leaks are in the unit test code.  But I've found 2 >>> leg

Re: Running unit tests under valgrind

2012-05-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > Yes.  A lot of the leaks are in the unit test code.  But I've found 2 > legitimate leaks as well. Do you guys run the whole system under valgrind (John is obviously right about tests on the parts don't necessarily say anything about the wh

Re: Scheduled transaction issue

2012-04-30 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> I should probably have sent this to -devel rather than -user, so here it is. >> > > No, it really does belong in user. My thought was that this is a b

Fwd: Scheduled transaction issue

2012-04-30 Thread Donald Allen
I should probably have sent this to -devel rather than -user, so here it is. /Don -- Forwarded message -- From: Donald Allen Date: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:20 AM Subject: Scheduled transaction issue To: Gnucash My gnucash data is sitting in postgres on a Linux system. I

Minor nit

2012-04-04 Thread Donald Allen
The Gnucash home page, in the "Download Gnucash ..." area in the upper right corner, refers to "Linux source". Those sources build and run on the BSDs and some of us do run those systems. I'd suggest changing the word "Linux" to "Unix". Similarly, if you click the 'Via distribution' link, no menti

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Delete post

2012-01-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: > I think by tonight I'm going to add a nice, big disclaimer at the top of > the Mailing Lists page (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists) saying > that we can't delete or manipulate people's messages. I know it won't stop > trolls from bei

Re: marking a transaction cleared "c" causes malfunction of program

2012-01-15 Thread Donald Allen
in > a calendar (e.g. invoice) the calendar doesn't close any more. Before > (2.4.8) I could double click a date and the calendar closed. > > -- > Original message > From: "Donald Allen" > To: markus1...@gmail.com; > Dated: 16/01/201

Re: marking a transaction cleared "c" causes malfunction of program

2012-01-15 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Markus Scheffler wrote: > Hi all, > > tried to mark transaction cleared after upgrading to 2.4.9 from 2.4.8 on > windows xp. After selecting c in a transaction the program goes in to an > endless loop showing an empty popup. Have to manually abort the program. I >

Re: 2.6 Release -- SCheme

2012-01-01 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Gour wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:36:28 -0500 > Mike Alexander wrote: > >> Python is popular now, but will it be in 10 years?  I've seen >> lots of languages come and go. > > That's true, but I bet it will be more popular than Scheme for sure. > > Moreover, we c

Re: 2.6 Release -- SCheme

2011-12-31 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: > --On December 31, 2011 6:31:34 PM -0500 Donald Allen > wrote: > >> If there is agreement among the developers that this is an attractive >> alternative to Guile, I would advise doing some prototyping to >>

Re: 2.6 Release -- SCheme

2011-12-31 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > On Sat, December 31, 2011 5:46 pm, Mike Alexander wrote: >> --On December 31, 2011 6:22:55 PM + Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:19:58 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: >>> >>> This is probably a more drastic change than

Re: Gnucash reports using php and mysql

2011-12-23 Thread Donald Allen
b.com/pedroabel/gnucashreports > > Thank you all and wish you all a nice Christmas. > > Best regards, > > Pedro > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Pedro Abel wrote: >> > Hello friends, greetings fro

Re: Gnucash reports using php and mysql

2011-12-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Pedro Abel wrote: > Hello friends, greetings from Brazil, > > My name is Pedro and this is the first time I send an e-mail to this list. > > First, thank you all for such a great software. I'm using it for years. > > I was wondering if anyone is working on some rep

Re: Strategy

2011-12-04 Thread Donald Allen
This is becoming a good, healthy discussion, with a variety of viewpoints that make for interesting reading. But to those who seem to think that starting over is *always* a bad idea, I'd ask you if you'd like to be running Windows 3.1.14159/MSDOS 19 on your PCs, instead of something based on Windo

Strategy

2011-12-03 Thread Donald Allen
I've been watching with interest the messages flying by from various people that confirm the impression (from just trying to build it) that Gnucash has become a gigantic hairball. John Ralls has been saying a number of things that sound smart (I'll tell you later where to send the check, John) abou

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-11-17 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > >> Donald Allen writes: > >> > >>>> (cond ((> x 5) (fun a

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-11-17 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald Allen writes: > > >> (cond ((> x 5) (fun a b))) ;; I won't even attempt to properly indent > this > >> in gmail > >> > >> vs. > >> > >> if x > 5: &

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-11-16 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:05:48 -0400, Yawar Amin wrote: >> >> > Hi John, >> > >> > On 2011-07-08, at 23:33, John Ralls wrote: >&

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-11-16 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:05:48 -0400, Yawar Amin wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > On 2011-07-08, at 23:33, John Ralls wrote: > > > >>> […] > >> > >> Fun. Two questions: Can that be easily converted into a string parser > >> so that normal users are

Re: Restyled GnuCash website is online

2011-09-25 Thread Donald Allen
oving this (e.g., the first sentence of my edited version is redundant as the current page stands, since the title just above it is "GnuCash Documentation Project"), but how you do it relates to how the material is organized and since we're discussing reorganizing it, I won't both

Re: Restyled GnuCash website is online

2011-09-25 Thread Donald Allen
ils of some of the numerous features that GnuCash has to offer > to > its users. I agree -- that's better. /Don > > David > > > > - Original Message - > From: Donald Allen > To: David T. > Cc: Cristian Marchi ; Wm Tarr ; > "gnucash-dev

Re: Restyled GnuCash website is online

2011-09-25 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:30 AM, David T. wrote: > I see some stuff on http://www.gnucash.org/features.phtml that could use an > editorial eye. I'd take advice on how to proceed. You could do that off list > if need be. Yes. For example, "GnuCash is a powerful accounting software. This page

Re: Cheque Printing from Search Results Window

2011-06-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > "John P. New" writes: > > >> This is not a bug. This is a feature. > >> This is exactly how you are supposed to print multiple checks at once. > > > > Yes, I see that the Help Manual does say that this is the way to print > > multiple chequ

Re: gnucash-devel list policy (was: Money files)

2011-06-08 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011 schrieb Donald Allen: >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > "Edward Ingram" writes: >> >> Can I import Microsoft Mo

Re: Money files

2011-06-07 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > "Edward Ingram" writes: > >> Can I import Microsoft Money 2003 into gnucash? > > This question should have been asked on gnucash-user, as it's a user > question and not a development question. I've complained about the amount of user-

Re: Account name change

2011-03-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald Allen writes: > > > Running 2.4.4 on a Slackware 13.1 64-bit system, I just edited an > (expense) > > account from the COA and changed its name. I then went to an account > > register and tried to cha

Account name change

2011-03-21 Thread Donald Allen
Running 2.4.4 on a Slackware 13.1 64-bit system, I just edited an (expense) account from the COA and changed its name. I then went to an account register and tried to change a split to that account using its new name. The new name was not found/recognized, but the old name was. I saved the (xml) fi

Re: Gnucash 2.4.3 released

2011-02-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > gnucash.org homepage needs to be updated. In the upper right corner, > it still invites you to download 2.4.2. And if you click on Linux "Source", you get the 2.4.2 tarball. /Don > > /Don > > On Sun, F

Re: Gnucash 2.4.3 released

2011-02-27 Thread Donald Allen
gnucash.org homepage needs to be updated. In the upper right corner, it still invites you to download 2.4.2. /Don On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.3 Release 2011-02-27 > GnuCash 2.4.3 released > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuC

Re: GnuCash Dev teams

2011-02-01 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Zitat von Sebastien Daniel : > > I recently joined the GnuCash -devel list, hoping I could contribute in >> some manner. >> >> The experience I can give is related to business management, accounting >> and my academics, which are in the

Re: Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> On Fri, January 28, 2011 11:15 am, Donald Allen wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Ralls >> wrote: >> > >> &g

Re: Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Fri, January 28, 2011 11:15 am, Donald Allen wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> > >> >

Re: Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:45 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Ralls wrote: > >> >> On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> > On a FreeBSD

Re: Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:27 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On a FreeBSD 8.1, I've downloaded the 2.4 tarball. When I run > 'configure', I > > get > > > > checking for gzopen in -lz... yes &g

Building problem on FreeBSD 8.1

2011-01-28 Thread Donald Allen
On a FreeBSD 8.1, I've downloaded the 2.4 tarball. When I run 'configure', I get checking for gzopen in -lz... yes configure: External QOF Disabled. Using Internal QOF Code. checking dbi/dbi.h usability... no checking dbi/dbi.h presence... no checking for dbi/dbi.h... no configure: error: Unable

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 January 2011 17:30, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM,

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 January 2011 16:59, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law wrote: >>> On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> PS: For the record, the Al

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 January 2011 16:14, Derek Atkins wrote: >> [...] >> PS: For the record, the Alpha releases vociferously exclaim that you >> could lose data by using them. >> > > However it is also unfortunately true that for some time the principle > dow

Re: Total Crash and Lost Data

2011-01-17 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David T. wrote: > Randy-- > > Presumably, you have lost your Gnucash data because of a crash. Also > presumably, you might want assistance recovering from this crash. However, > there's not a lot to go on in your message. What operating system are you on? > What

Re: Wrong list

2011-01-13 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:09 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > There are enough user questions cluttering this list that maybe an > attempt > > should be made to strengthen the descriptions of the purposes of -devel > an

Wrong list

2011-01-13 Thread Donald Allen
There are enough user questions cluttering this list that maybe an attempt should be made to strengthen the descriptions of the purposes of -devel and -user? -devel is currently described as "Development discussion and submission of patches" -user is described as "User questions" For -devel, I'd

Re: IRR on Advanced Portfolio report

2011-01-10 Thread Donald Allen
elves, by just computing the IRR for them. Perhaps it could present the NPV v. discount rate curve for a proposed investment (or investments), to help people avoid the common misuse of IRR. /Don > Franco > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: >>

Re: IRR on Advanced Portfolio report

2011-01-10 Thread Donald Allen
culate NPV, and add the column), but I think this is > more complex to use since it requires to think first to which is the > expected return rate. > Regards, > Franco > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:2

Re: IRR on Advanced Portfolio report

2011-01-10 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Franco Mossotto wrote: > I was looking for the ability in gnucash to calculate the IRR (Internal Rate > of Return) for investments. This is something that other products has and > that I found essential in order to evaluate the investments in my portfolio. IRR is

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:31 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Dardis wrote: >>> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma >>> wrote: >>> >>

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-29 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Dardis wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:32:44 -0500, Herbert Thoma > wrote: > >> On 28.12.2010 22:35, Christian Stimming wrote: >>> >>> Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: > > > >> I am not that sure that an interpreted language is a good

Re: Future of Gnucash (Javascript?)

2010-12-28 Thread Donald Allen
2010/12/28 Christian Stimming : > Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2010 schrieb Jeff Warnica: >> The question shouldn't be "C++ or not", but "what is the best >> 2nd/runtime/scripting language?" >> >> In 2010/2011, given that Gnucash isn't a game, there is really only one >> choice: Javascript. While http

Re: Onwards!

2010-12-25 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:52 PM, John Ralls wrote: > So 2.4 is finally out the door. Hurrah! > > Now we need to plan out where to go next. I've updated > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap with some ideas. Let's flesh that out > into a project plan for the next major version(s). > > We also nee

Re: Gnucash 2.4.0 released

2010-12-22 Thread Donald Allen
Congratulations to all of you who have worked so hard on this release. /Don On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > Announcement: GnuCash 2.4.0 Release 2010-12-21 > GnuCash 2.4.0 released > The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.4.0, the latest > stable releas

Re: Gnucash Help

2010-12-20 Thread Donald Allen
This is not an appropriate question for the gnucash-devel mailing list, which, as the mailing list page says, is for Gnucash "Development discussion and submission of patches". In other words, developers talking to each other about future plans for the software, doing releases, fixing bugs, etc. Pl

Re: Can't find slib?

2010-12-12 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > On Sat, December 11, 2010 11:32 pm, Donald Allen wrote: > > > >> Normally your distribution would do this for you, but as you're running > >> Slackware all bets are off and I'm afraid you're on y

Re: Can't find slib?

2010-12-11 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald, > > On Sat, December 11, 2010 10:23 am, Donald Allen wrote: > > On a Slackware 13.1 (32-bit) system, I just checked out svn head, tried > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash-devel, and got: > > &g

Re: Can't find slib?

2010-12-11 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:16 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Donald, > > On Sat, December 11, 2010 10:23 am, Donald Allen wrote: > > On a Slackware 13.1 (32-bit) system, I just checked out svn head, tried > > ./configu

Can't find slib?

2010-12-11 Thread Donald Allen
On a Slackware 13.1 (32-bit) system, I just checked out svn head, tried ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash-devel, and got: checking for SLIB support... configure: error: Cannot find SLIB. Are you sure you have it installed? See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347922 and http://bugzilla.

Re: GnuCash Companion for Android

2010-12-06 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, avvari.shyam wrote: > > Hi all... I am a GNC user and wanted to be able to small things on my > android > phone on the fly. Luckily I am also a Java/Android developer so I have > started developing a companion for android. The android application will be > very sim

Re: queries on mysql

2010-11-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:23 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Fred Verschueren wrote: >>> Don, >>> >>> thanks for your advice and explanation. >>> I've done

Re: Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

2010-11-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Colin Law wrote: [snip] > If you install either Ubuntu or Mint, early in the installation > process you will deal with partitioning. If you install "side-by-side" > with Windows, the

Re: Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

2010-11-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Colin Law wrote: > On 27 November 2010 10:58, Ian X Waddington wrote: >> Hi >> >> No I do not need to use MySQL at all, the xml option works fine. >> >> I was thinking that if I get the data into an MySQL database I might be able >> to access the data more easily

Re: queries on mysql

2010-11-27 Thread Donald Allen
e data-model documented will makes this sort of thing much easier and the code less messy. /Don > > Fred. > > > > > Op 26-11-10 15:21, Donald Allen schreef: >> >> I'd like to suggest another possibility. My understanding is that you >> have a number of yea

Re: queries on mysql

2010-11-26 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, November 26, 2010 3:26 am, Fred Verschueren wrote: >> David, >> >> sounds easy but the drawback would be that all the work that I have >> already done in GnuCash I need to do again. > > Yes, but it's only 1 month of work, vs. 1

Re: queries on mysql

2010-11-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Phil, > > Phil Longstaff writes: > >> I will put some info on the wiki.  Give me a day or so. > > I would prefer you didn't.  If you supply instructions then that implies > an implicit acceptance in the practice.  I believe we should continu

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald Allen writes: > >>> This is one of many reasons I always recommend that people doing >>> development use a "prefix build": >>> >>>  ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnucash >>

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2010, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Donald Allen > wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> >> Donald Allen writes: >&g

Re: 2.4.0 with XML as default (, what's left to do)

2010-11-20 Thread Donald Allen
2010/11/20 Christian Stimming : > Am Samstag, 20. November 2010 schrieb John Ralls: >> > I have one question: are we shipping 2.4.0 with default backend SQL or >> > XML? >> >> I think we are (and should) leaving the default as XML for 2.4. There isn't >> a substantial benefit for the ordinary user

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Donald Allen writes: >> >>>>> Do `ldd /usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so` and make sure that >>>>> libgnc-qof.so is in the li

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-19 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald Allen writes: > >>>> Do `ldd /usr/local/lib/gnucash/libgncmod-app-utils.so` and make sure that >>>> libgnc-qof.so is in the list. >>>> >>> >>> d...@octavian:~$ ldd /usr/loc

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Thursday 18 November 2010, Donald Allen wrote: >> > I have a guess about what's going on here. I'm not sure what the output >> > of ldd is saying (the ld man page is amazingly unhelpful, a reminder of

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John Ralls wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Donald Allen wrote: >

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John Ralls wrote: > >> >> On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Donald Allen wrote: >> >> > I've just obtained 2.3.16 via svn to try to test the fix to a postgres >

Re: guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-18 Thread Donald Allen
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:22 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > I've just obtained 2.3.16 via svn to try to test the fix to a postgres > issue > > John Ralls, Geert, and I have been discussing. I ran autogen.sh, >

guid_g_hash_table_equal

2010-11-18 Thread Donald Allen
I've just obtained 2.3.16 via svn to try to test the fix to a postgres issue John Ralls, Geert, and I have been discussing. I ran autogen.sh, configure, make -j 3, make install and gnucash will not run, probably an oversight on my part. The error I get is d...@octavian:~/Software/Gnucash/gnucash$

Re: [Bug 632166] sql backend silently fails and loses data

2010-10-18 Thread Donald Allen
John -- This is reminiscent of a bug, 609583, that I reported and you and I worked on earlier this year. I just wanted to remind you of it in case the issues are the same (I haven't read the two bug reports carefully) and, if so, there might be something of use to you in the older report.. /Don

Re: Your message to gnucash-devel awaits moderator approval

2010-08-10 Thread Donald Allen
Your messages should be sent to gnucash-user, gnucash-devel. gnucash-devel is for communication among people developing and testing the software. It is not for answering user-level questions such as yours. gnucash-user is the right place for that. /Don Allen PS Your message below talks about a li

Re: accounting software

2010-06-28 Thread Donald Allen
o Read A Financial Report" as a place to begin. I am self-taught in accounting myself and while I'm hardly an expert, I found that book quite valuable. /Don > > Thanks, > Amiruddin Nagri > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: >> >>

Re: accounting software

2010-06-27 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:50 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Darla J. Wood wrote: > >> To Whom it may concern, >> My name is Darla Wood and I am a small business owner. I am very new to the >> Smartphone environment and am a typical computer user. The information I >> fo

Re: We need to prevent multi-user access to the SQL backend

2010-05-21 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 20 May 2010 19:48, Gour wrote: >> On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:55:01 -0400 "Derek" == Derek Atkins wrote: >> >> Derek> IMNSHO, adding MySQL and PG support was a mistake; we should >> Derek> have stuck with just SQLite. >> >> +1 > > -1, I

Re: r19080 - gnucash/trunk - Bug #616696 - Development version warning string should not include hardcode version.

2010-04-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Don, > > Donald Allen writes: > >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> Geert Janssens writes: >>> >>>> On Wednesday 28 April 2010,

Re: r19080 - gnucash/trunk - Bug #616696 - Development version warning string should not include hardcode version.

2010-04-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Geert Janssens writes: > >> On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Derek Atkins wrote: >>> Geert Janssens writes: >>> > -GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_VERSION="2.2.9" >>> > +GNUCASH_LATEST_STABLE_SERIES=$GNUCASH_MAJOR_VERSION.$(($GNUCASH_MINOR_VE >>> >RSION-($

Keyboard shortcut problem

2010-04-01 Thread Donald Allen
I've noticed that the keyboard shortcuts in certain situations in 2.2.9 have the underline misplaced -- it precedes the character it's supposed to modify, rather than appearing under it. One example is the popup dialog you get when gnucash wasn't shut down properly and the lock file is still presen

Re: What "Est" means?

2010-03-20 Thread Donald Allen
2010/3/20 Yasuaki Taniguchi/谷口康明 > Hello, people. > > I'm translating GnuCash po file but I can't understand the word "Est" > means. > For example, mgsid is "3rd Est Tax Quarter". > Would you please tell me what words or phrases are abbreviated to "Ext"? > It stands for "estimated". /Don > > T

Re: [Bug 609581] Gnucash 2.3.8 offers to create db and then fails to do so

2010-03-14 Thread Donald Allen
ning until something timed out. When I tried it with Firefox on a hunch, I got an explicit error message about the permission problem. Attachments have been uploaded. /Don On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > I am trying to add a comment with attachments to this bug and I'

Fwd: [Bug 609581] Gnucash 2.3.8 offers to create db and then fails to do so

2010-03-14 Thread Donald Allen
I am trying to add a comment with attachments to this bug and I'm getting errors from the gnome server. So I'll tell you what I've found here and will update the bug database when things start working again on their end. Here's the tail of the postgresql.log: LOG: database system is shut down LO

Re: Stabilizing 2.4.0 (was Re: Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: GUI in C++, Qt, CMake.)

2010-03-05 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:04 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > > Do we want to release a stable 2.4.0? What do we need to finish to do > > that. There are lots of things happening in trunk, all of which will be > > useful at some point, but many of w

Re: Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: GUI in C++, Qt, CMake.

2010-03-05 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Donald Allen wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > >> On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:34 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: >> > I'd like to explain my recent experiments with C++ and cmake: I was >> ti

Re: Announcing a new sub-project in gnucash: GUI in C++, Qt, CMake.

2010-03-05 Thread Donald Allen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 21:34 +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > > I'd like to explain my recent experiments with C++ and cmake: I was tired > of > > the amount of code one has to write in the C language to achieve > seemingly > > trivial tasks

Re: Advice

2010-03-02 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > I have tried to put my problem out on the IRC channel but have been unable to > get a response. > > My system (Vista) crashed and had to be reloaded. I of course lost all > programs including GnuCash. I have what I thought was a backup file of my > busi

Re: Online Banking Setup

2010-02-28 Thread Donald Allen
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:04 PM, David Jensen wrote: > I am using GnuCash for the first time.  The setup to connect Gnucash to my > bank is difficult.  I have no idea where to find the OFX settings for > Mountain America Credit Union.  Any ideas? I can't offer any ideas specific to your problem,

Re: SQL backend performance

2010-02-24 Thread Donald Allen
Some good news: Doing this the easy way first, I did a little manual pc sampling. I ran gnucash (today's trunk) under gdb, let it get to the point where it begins to load my data from postgresql, and periodically ctrl-c'd in gdb and copied the interrupted location and a backtrace to an emacs buffe

Re: SQL backend performance

2010-02-24 Thread Donald Allen
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 09:59 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Donald Allen writes: >> >> >> I think true measurements will be the only way to find out what causes >> >> delays >> >> wh

Re: SQL backend performance

2010-02-24 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Donald Allen wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Geert Janssens >> > Your assumptions on how things work are correct. >> > >> > And I noticed this performance decr

Re: SQL backend performance

2010-02-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Donald Allen wrote: >> As I've mentioned in other posts, I have a pretty large gnucash >> datafile -- more than 20 Mb uncompressed. I've been testing the SQL >> backend and I&#x

Re: Is missing trn:currency clause legal?

2010-02-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Donald Allen writes: > >>> Agreed, it should be more vocal about failures!  In particular it should >>> at LEAST output something to gnucash.trace! >> >> It already announces the assertion failure i

Re: [Bug 609583] Postgresql backend loses data

2010-02-23 Thread Donald Allen
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Conrad Canterford wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 18:37 +, Mike Evans wrote: >> On Sunday February 21 2010 17:22:59 Donald Allen wrote: >> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:48 PM,   wrote: >> > > A question for you folks -- >> >

SQL backend performance

2010-02-22 Thread Donald Allen
As I've mentioned in other posts, I have a pretty large gnucash datafile -- more than 20 Mb uncompressed. I've been testing the SQL backend and I'm concerned about the performance, particularly startup performance. I've been doing this testing on an inexpensive little HP desktop machine, dual-core

Re: Is missing trn:currency clause legal?

2010-02-22 Thread Donald Allen
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > Donald Allen writes: > > [snip] >> So here's my question: is the transaction without a >> clause mal-formed? > > Yes, it is mal-formed. > >>     If it is mal-formed, then more work is

Is missing trn:currency clause legal?

2010-02-22 Thread Donald Allen
I recently filed a bug report (609583) regarding an issue that came up when testing the sql backend. The report referenced 2.3.8, but I've been working with the svn trunk and it exhibits the same behavior. Summarizing the issue, I open a copy of my current gnucash (xml) file with the svn trunk ve

Re: [Bug 609583] Postgresql backend loses data

2010-02-21 Thread Donald Allen
gt; > Concernedly curious, > > -- Erik Anderson > > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Donald Allen > wrote: >> >> Geert wrote: >> >> Aside from the bug you are trying to analyse... >> >> You can try to add a new account window (which is not the

[Bug 609583] Postgresql backend loses data

2010-02-19 Thread Donald Allen
Geert wrote: Aside from the bug you are trying to analyse... You can try to add a new account window (which is not the same as creating a new book), via menu View->New Accounts Page. If this shows your existing account data, there is another bug in 2.3.10 regarding the accounts page not showing

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