Re: client-server

2000-12-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:24:54PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been rumoured that Peter C. Norton said: Interesting, I haven't looked at libgnc_engine. Have you, in turn, looked at the gda library being developed for gnome-db? Sort-of. libgda was one of the contributing

Re: client-server

2000-12-27 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 04:51:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, we still need to have libgnc_engine talk to an sql database, and still need to slove the caching problems, and a bunch of other issues. But I think a cheapo demo could be done really quick (a few days/weeks) by

Re: How many people are using guile 1.3 (not 1.3.4) and can't easily switch?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter C. Norton
The various gnome-games packages, and maybe other parts of gnome. There aren't many (any?) other widely-distributed packages, though. -Peter On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:43:01PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: Rob Browning writes: Richard -Gilligan- Uschold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm

Re: How many people are using guile 1.3 (not 1.3.4) and can't easily switch?

2000-10-30 Thread Peter C. Norton
Yeah, 1.3 is a pretty lackluster guile. And that's saying something :) -Peter On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 04:08:31PM +, Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote: Rob Browning wrote: As far as I can tell, the latest version of g-wrap works fine with guile 1.3.4 and guile 1.4 on my system(s).

Re: gnucash 1.4.8 is released

2000-10-30 Thread Peter C. Norton
I believe that guile-1.3.4 ships w/ rh 7, so that shouldn't be a big deal anymore. -Peter On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 06:14:16PM -0400, D-Man wrote: Thanks for providing the RH 7.0 rpms. I had a lot of trouble trying to upgrade before -- to build gnucash I needed g-wrap. To build g-wrap I

Re: Backup feature?

2000-08-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:14:24PM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote: Rather like the tar and dump systems for tape? Every backup tool has the same goal. Tar is an archiver, though, not a backup tool, and dump is also more archive-oriented. The filesystem log hack that I've seen done gives you

Re: GNUCash

2000-07-10 Thread Peter C. Norton
Musicians also call it a "sharp" since western music notation is pretty consistant as to what a sharp looks like :) -Peter On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 09:27:14PM -0700, Clark Jones wrote: Correct. The character that most computer keyboards these days have as "shift 3", sometimes referred to as

Re: Configure problem on FreeBSD

2000-06-05 Thread Peter C. Norton
I learn something new every day. On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:29:34PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:36:06PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: I think that should be test ! -x ... instead. Could you try that? No, ! test -x should works as well. What shell are you

Re: 64 bit nonportability

2000-06-03 Thread Peter C. Norton
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 in the code. How is this different from using already-created

Re: Heads up. Major source tree reorg coming soon.

2000-05-30 Thread Peter C. Norton
Well, mine can... My solaris 2.6 box is a little out of date, but libtool, etc. aren't that hard to put in... -Peter On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:54:12PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: Hi all, Does anyone else using Solaris have libtool? I don't have a Solaris development box in front of me