Re: denominators

2000-07-16 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 10:36:26AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:17:52 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Although this is functional, I object to re-denomination because the auditors want the ledger to match the

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

2000-07-06 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:04:30PM -0500, Jon Trowbridge wrote: For example, certain UK Govt Bonds have decimalized recently. They were previously quoted in 32nds, and are now quoted in 100ths. This is particularly annoying, since you can't convert old prices to new without loss of

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 07:18:20PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Autosaving: every autosave_period() time units { if (database_has_changed()) { save_database_to_file("original name.autosave"); if (error) report_error_to_gui();

Re: backup proposal

2000-06-22 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Probably the temporary files should be in /tmp or /usr/tmp and contain the process number. If we put them in /tmp, then we really need to use something like mkstemp(char *template) to get a unique name. But I'm not sure we

Re: Log File behaviour

2000-06-17 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: Now, those .xac files - are they the previous data file, or are they written in parallel with the main file? (Or copied after the main file is written?) They are written

Re: 64 bit nonportability

2000-06-03 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 10:20:40AM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 05:01:51AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: I agree. Using gint32 rather than int only solves part of the problem. foo_t is much more flexible.It reduces the architecture dependency to a single point

Re: The Library Problem

2000-05-27 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:21:12PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: ...stuff about library problem... I don't see there being _massive_ value to designing anything to this end. In particular, it seems like Helix Code has raised a lot of capital to address exactly this problem for programs very

What good are the logs?

2000-05-25 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
Sorry to ask a stupid question, but what good are the logs that GnuCash writes out? They have lots of information, but I can't see any convenient way to use it (without doing some programming). In particular, when I forget to quit GnuCash before quitting X, I seem to get a log file but no saved

Re: Fixing multi-split, same destination transactions.

2000-05-18 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 07:55:01AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: ... I think that that is the mistake. It is ONE TRANSACTION. When displaying a transaction we should show each of the JEs and sort them so that those applying to the current account are sorted first. If you collapse

Re: Fixing multi-split, same destination transactions.

2000-05-18 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:20:53AM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: I would ALWAYS make data entry a multi-line mode. ... However, I agree that in your proposal, which drops the transaction line, this might be viable. There would really be no difference between single and multi-line modes.

Re: A Currency bug in 1.3.7

2000-05-16 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 03:35:26PM +0200, Herbert Thoma wrote: Arnold Troeger wrote: I have a couple of problems with gnucash 1.3.7: 1) Total assets are calculated from all the categories independent of the category's currency. I have accounts defined in US Dollars and Thai Baht. It

Memos for transactions?

2000-05-16 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
I just noticed a consequence of Memos being associated with Journal Entries and not Transactions: Even for a simple transaction without splits, only one side of the transaction sees the memo. Furthermore, which side sees the memo is different in the "Double Line" and "Multi Line" views. This

Re: Terminology

2000-05-16 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:34:17PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: Surprise, you are using a double-entry ledger system :) That is, unless you are leaving all of your 'transfer from' fields blanks, all of your entries in checking account have a matching entry in an expense, income, etc.

Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-11 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 12:16:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that Dylan Paul Thurston said: I was curious about this last statement, and, having never used PostgreSQL, decided to test it. I downloaded PostgreSQL 7.0-beta5 from the Debian distribution, installed

Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-10 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:26:20PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: Richard Wackerbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is a "religious" reaction. MySQL is limited for only some users. For all practical purposes, MySQL is "free" for a major portion of the potential user base. It's not free for

Re: Database backend -- Was: Remarks on mail

2000-05-10 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:38:50PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: so I don't see why you would consider MySQL at all. PostgresSQL is more expensive in terms of cpu (probably not significant) and administration complexity (VERY important) I was curious about this last statement, and,