Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: http://pandoc.org/ It's open source. I'd assumed someone would have mentioned it by now, but no one did, so here we are :-) Best, Yawar On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 01

Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Whoops, never mind, I see now I hit send too fast. Pandoc is mentioned in another related thread. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Yawar Amin <yawar.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: > http://pandoc.org/ > > It's open source. I

Re: I need some guidance

2015-03-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, just a quick note that the project I pointed you to is not meant to be installed, I simply wanted you to look at the source code and 'crib' off it when writing your own. Good luck. Regards, Yawar P.S. it's considered good etiquette to subscribe directly to the mailing list by

Re: Scheduled Transaction formula support string literal parameters.

2015-02-28 Thread Yawar Amin
...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yawar, Am 27.02.2015 um 19:37 schrieb Yawar Amin: Hello, it may be helpful for you to look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin I tried to use that page to list all GnuCash Scheme API that I knew about. Feel free to edit it if you want. Hope this helps

Re: Scheduled Transaction formula support string literal parameters.

2015-02-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hello, it may be helpful for you to look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin I tried to use that page to list all GnuCash Scheme API that I knew about. Feel free to edit it if you want. Hope this helps. Yawar On 2015-02-26, at 22:09, YaoCL chunlin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am

Re: I need some guidance

2015-02-24 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2015-02-24, at 9:06, David Christopher chrst...@gmail.com wrote: [...] When you write code is Scheme script, are you literally building the Options, what I call a form, literally? I have been looking at the Hello world .scm file while in a tutorial. I understand I can change

Your offer to help (was: Re: gnucash-devel Digest, Vol 131, Issue 21)

2014-02-24 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Elise, On 2014-02-23 12:38, Elise Scher wrote: I would like to help with the project on a part-time basis. I know a bit of C, having written some small programs in C. My English is very good. I grew up in Massachusetts and live near Stanford University. I would like to learn and help,

Re: gnucash bugfix: Multiple changes pushed

2014-02-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2014-02-21, at 12:29, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: [...] You can get git to help you here by setting push.default to nothing, which will require you to say what branch you want to push. AFAICT none of the other options will stop you from accidentally pushing a

Re: gnucash master: Test git.

2014-02-03 Thread Yawar Amin
Congrats everyone on switching to git. On 2014-02-03, at 15:12, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Monday 03 February 2014 14:56:19 Cristian Marchi wrote: Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/1a6b0b74 (commit) from

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-24 11:33, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] No, '(x) == (list x) ... in all versions of Scheme, not just guile. Thanks Derek. I just did this: guile (define x 1) guile '(x) (x) guile (list x) (1) So that's the difference I guess Regards, Yawar signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-24 10:40, John Ralls wrote: [...] Actually it's prepending $GNC_DOT_DIR, which defaults to $HOME/.gnucash. It does that because that's where it expects custom reports to be, and it does it on all platforms. Thanks John. I've simplified the report loading instructions a bit in the

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-23 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-23 13:50, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] This is an invalid menu path. You are telling it, literally, gnc:menuname-utility, which isn't a valid menu path name. Try changing it to: 'menu-path (list gnc:menuname-utility) Thanks Derek. I could've sworn that '(x) == (list x). But

New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, I'm following the instructions at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Load_the_report_from_a_user_account and trying to prototype a new Scheme report. However I don't see it anywhere on the Reports menu. There are no indicators as to what happened, why it failed to show up. I

Re: Git repository mail notifications

2013-05-28 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-05-28, at 12:22, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] mythtv branch devel/logging updated by danielk. v0.27-pre2-1194-gce1462b packaging branch master updated by nigel. v0.26-33-ge758033 mythtv branch master updated by paulh. v0.27-pre2-1124-ge48d898 The first symbol

Re: Development primer?

2013-05-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-05-11, at 5:28, Christian Stimming (mobil) christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Dear Allen, I'm sorry to hear the program does not start. The error during make check is caused because you don't have the French locale installed. We discussed this here already 3-4 weeks ago. Can

Re: Make check failure in backend/dbi/test

2013-05-25 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-05-03 07:59, Geert Janssens wrote: With current trunk (being r22938), I run into this make check failure: make[5]: Entering directory `/kobaltnet/janssege/Development/Builds/gnucash-f18- [...] I first thought it was due to some local staged patches, but even on a clean

Re: Git based releases

2013-05-20 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-05-20, at 11:37, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] This presumes we have a trusted PGP Key that we can use... Currently we do not. Yeah, this is a stumbling block. Have any of us signed anyone else's keys at all? If not maybe we should keep an eye out for opportunities to

Re: Git based releases

2013-05-19 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-05-19, at 11:54, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: [...] Yours would generate an unsigned annotated tag. In the git-tag man page I found we could also generate signed tags using -s or -u. I don't know the (dis)advantages of both methods and which one we should use

Re: Git wiki page

2013-05-18 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2013-05-17 14:23, Geert Janssens wrote: [...] Hopefully this will help some to understand git branches better and why they are totally different from svn branches (where each branch is a commit in itself, not a floating label to attach to some commit). This was a great

Re: Writing Data from MS Access to GnuCash

2013-02-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Alan, On 2013-02-04 05:18, Asset Finance Corporation wrote: [...] I have written some applications in MS Access but would like to link them into an accounting package. Either directly or in the form of batch updates. Is this possible? Where could I find documentation/advice about where to

Re: GnuCash for Android banner in homepage

2013-02-02 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Cristian, On 2013-02-02 08:07, Cristian Marchi wrote: [...] 1. Move it to directly underneath the main GnuCash download banner. I firstly thought the same but I think is better to have the features of the main GnuCash version listed just below its description and download links to avoid

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 11:15, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: [...] I think that you guys have a misunderstanding about how merging works. Try merging 2.4 back into trunk. When I did just now, 4 files merged successfully, the rest have conflicts. One might be able to do better by

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 12:26, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: [...] If you create a new git branch from trunk and don't make any changes (remember, backports are the only allowed changes on a release branch), then of course it will merge cleanly: It won't have any changes, so the

Re: How to handle multiple long-term branches (was Re: Notification mails for git repos)

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 14:40, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: [...] This breaks down when B and C affect the same code that D does. Obviously you resolve those conflicts in favor of the development branch when you merge D. No problem, right? Well, you have to resolve them again

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-30, at 11:13, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: [...] Alternatively I played with the idea to just drop the whole BP trickery. Right idea Instead we could use a backport branch in git. Each dev that commits something to trunk/master that should also

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Mike, On 2013-01-30, at 16:49, Mike Alexander m...@umich.edu wrote: [...] The article says to use bisect to find the first revision that introduced the bug, but with a project as big as GnuCash, where some bugs have been around for years, that would be painful. Actually, you don't need

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-30 22:37, John Ralls wrote: [...] is fundamentally flawed. The new change can *not* be cleanly merged into any branch if the code that it affects has been changed since the commit that introduced the bug. It's no different from any other cherry-pick. Yes, that is a

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-30 23:06, Yawar Amin wrote: [...] See my response to Mike Evans on bisect. Oops, I mean Mike Alexander. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-01-30 22:44, John Ralls wrote: [...] 2.4 was branched off of 2.3, not trunk. And it was done 4 years and 4500 changes ago. If the bit of code that you're working on happens not to have changed in those 4 years (there's plenty that hasn't) it makes no difference whether you

Re: GnuCash for Android banner in homepage

2013-01-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Cristian, On 2013-01-26 08:20, Cristian Marchi wrote: I've just committed a patch to show a banner dedicated to the GnuCash for android app in the beta website [1]. (Better later than never...) Let me know if this can be enough to promote the app. Proof reading and suggestions for the

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hello, On 2013-01-15 19:03, Yawar Amin wrote: [...] What I did like was John's idea of having a prominent `Need Help?' section right on the front page, `above the fold' as they say in web design speak. I guess that would put it above the News section. This would tell the reader to send

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-23 10:21, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] Once that happens we'll get svn - gitolite - github automatically on every commit (modulo the up-to-60s delay in the svn - gitolite transfer). Then, down the road, once we turn off svn we'll still have the gitolite - github auto-push in place

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-23 10:21, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] The next step will be to get gitolite to push to github, but we don't want to set that up until everyone is ready to reset github. I'm ready if everyone else is (git format-patch and am worked smoothly). If anyone's curious: $ cd $OLD_REPO_DIR $

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-22, at 9:51, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:30 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: [...] Maybe.. Here's the bigger issue, if I found issues/bugs in John's svn-git conversion, what do we do? (and yes, I found a problem in the

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-22, at 10:04, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: [...] What steps would your recommend to reattach private branches ? With my (limited) git knowledge I would only know how to export (git format-patch) from the old repo and import (git am) in the new clone.

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-22 12:25, Geert Janssens wrote: [...] Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your private history to convert ? The only significant work I have is my fork on GitHub (yawaramin/gnucash-docs). Other than that, a few throwaway learning experiments Regarding svn, it

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2013-01-21, at 9:11, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Hey all, Geert and I were working over the weekend to try to set up an svn-git mirror on code. Alas, I seem to have an issue that I don't know how to fix. I don't know gitolite, but wouldn't it work if you simply

Re: Backport policy regarding new strings ?

2013-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-01-19 04:12, Geert Janssens wrote: Yawar has got a patch ready to commit to both trunk and 2.4 that adds a new tip of the day entry. Somewhere I seem to have picked up that no new translatable strings should be introduced in the stable branch unless strictly necessary. Is my

Re: Bug 691762: behaviour of Find dialog box's `Reconcile' criteria buttons

2013-01-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2013-01-15, at 10:33, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: I added a comment to the Bz. In short, it's a single Predicate, so you need to group it as: Reconcile { is | is not } { N, C, Y, ... } Thank you. That clarifies it. I'll write up the behavior and add it to the

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-15 16:23, Colin Law wrote: On 15 January 2013 21:17, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013, 20:36:22 schrieb Derek Atkins: [...] I agree. Please do not call it a forum. No, I think Yawar has a valid point here. The term mailing

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2013-01-14 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2012-08-13 05:57, Geert Janssens wrote: [...] [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git-bz Git-bz does look useful to me. People that want to submit patches without having commit access can install this locally. At first sight it doesn't seem to create new bugs if the patch you

Bug 691762: behaviour of Find dialog box's `Reconcile' criteria buttons

2013-01-14 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, Re: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691762 Can someone clarify the behaviour of the Find Transaction dialog box when various combinations of buttons are clicked in the `Reconcile' criteria? I've created a bug to collect the discussion so please comment there. I'll write up

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-13, at 10:28, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: Regarding your comment in 7.3: it is indeed not possible to use the XDG_DATA_DIRS method to load a different set of documentation for the system-installed gnucash. This is because the 2.4 series uses a

[PATCH] Free memory in the gnc_gnome_help function

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, Came across this when I was trying to figure out how to test the documentation. See patch for details. Thanks, Yawar From 1adf4e8959f50fc1469b72a261ad04d844a8cad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yawar Amin yawar.a...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:09:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2013-01-13 14:07, Geert Janssens wrote: [...] Backporting follows these general criteria: - only bugfixes are backported, not enhancements. - and then only if the backport is fairly trivial. Complex fixes will not be backported because the risk on new bugs in the fixes is too high.

Re: [PATCH] Free memory in the gnc_gnome_help function

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-13 18:05, John Ralls wrote: [...] Fixed a bit differently (r22698). Thanks. Regards, John Ralls Much more succinct. I like it. Thanks, Yawar signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing

Re: [Bug 638955] Close Books needs documentation

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-13 20:35, Derek Atkins wrote: [...] That's too bad... I'll need your new key, and please don't lose it this time... ;-) Sending shortly, and not to worry, I'm backing up this time :-) Thanks signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-12 06:44, Geert Janssens wrote: [...] Now to be able to load the locally installed docs from within gnucash, you can run XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/geert/gnucash-docs/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ /home/geert/gnucash/bin/gnucash [...] Excellent! That's exactly what I

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-12 13:44, Yawar Amin wrote: [...] Excellent! That's exactly what I needed. Am writing this up in the wiki (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions) now. Wiki update done. Let me know if any mistakes/changes needed. http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki

Re: [Bug 638955] Close Books needs documentation

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-10 13:09, GnuCash (bugzilla.gnome.org) wrote: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638955 GnuCash | Documentation | 2.4.0 [...] --- Comment #8 from Frank H. Ellenberger f.ellenber...@online.de 2011-01-10 18:09:26 UTC --- [...] Because I can not find something like

Re: [Bug 638955] Close Books needs documentation

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-12 16:16, John Ralls wrote: Yawar, I'll commit the code if someone else doesn't beat me to it. You can commit the documentation change yourself. Regards, John Ralls This is a little embarrassing but I lost the private SSH key that I used for SVN access when I switched

[gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
this will change that by simplifying the `mailing lists' term to `public discussion forums'. Thoughts? Yawar From fb8a9918488d52e334add631ecdf16b795d10f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yawar Amin yawar.a...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:47:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Rename `Mailing Lists' to `Public

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
John, On 2013-01-12, at 18:16, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: That's not really a simplification. Worse, I think that if you call it that then people will think that they're web forums, and we have enough trouble with nabble users who don't understand that they're using a web

Testing docs in development version

2013-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, In http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/22378 you said that there would be a way to test the help documentation on Linux when building and testing from source--can you point me to how to do that? I.e. how to solve the problem of Yelp not finding gnucash-help and gnucash-guide when I've

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-11 20:25, Yawar Amin wrote: Hi Geert, In http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/22378 you said that there would be a way to test the help documentation on Linux when building and testing from source--can you point me to how to do that? I.e. how to solve the problem of Yelp

Can someone remove my email address from the GnuCash docs (help/concepts guide)?

2012-11-14 Thread Yawar Amin
I'm pretty sure it's confusing people into thinking that I personally provide GnuCash support. Maybe just replace my name and email address with the gnucash-user list address. I don't have the time right now to set up the whole toolchain and do it myself Thanks Yawar signature.asc

Re: Reminder: [MAINT] GnuCash Service Outage Sat, Aug 25 1000-1800 US/EDT

2012-08-25 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2012-08-25 11:17, Derek Atkins wrote: Hi, This is going to be starting any minute. All services (except www.gnucash.org) will be down while this process is ongoing. I'll send another email when it's complete. -derek Thanks Derek and good luck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Non-commiter github workflow

2012-08-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2012-08-21, at 12:41, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: I'm not sure that we want to encourage people to publish their forks on Github, or anywhere else. I don't see the harm, as long as the website makes clear that Gnucash/gnucash is the main repo. Accounting software

Re: Non-commiter github workflow

2012-08-21 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2012-08-21, at 13:56, John Ralls jra...@ceridwen.us wrote: Accounting software isn't a domain where fast-and-loose development is a good idea. Neither is an OS kernel ;-) Yup, and Torvalds doesn't accept pull requests via Github either [1]. Granted, I wouldn't want to use pull

Re: Git Migration: where to host the master repository

2012-08-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Folks, On 2012-08-13, at 9:31, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: We're still maintaining our server for email, wiki, build, docs, irc logs, etc. So we're already doing system maintenance, and moving to github doesn't really reduce the amount of configuration necessary. We would just need

Re: Git Migration: where to host the master repository

2012-08-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2012-08-13, at 13:55, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: If nothing else it would reduce my bandwitdh consumption significantly ;) Yes, I was thinking about this too :-) I just still feel that the master repo should be on code, and that the committers should be able to push

Re: GSOC coding begins

2012-05-20 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Ngewi, On 2012-05-20 16:05, Ngewi Fet wrote: Hi everyone, The coding period for Google Summer of Code begins tomorrow. (In case you forgot, I am working on the Gnucash Mobile Android app :-) The repository is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/codinguser/GnucashMobile In addition, I

Re: GNUCash Android Application - GSoC

2012-03-17 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Atul, Are you subscribing to the gnucash-devel mailing list through the email interface or Nabble? We would highly recommend email over Nabble or other third-party sites because as you can see, there may be some abusive people from time to time who were actually banned from our mailing

Re: GNU Cash Documentation

2012-02-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2012-02-26, at 22:27, Jason Massey wrote: Hello! Just wanted to say, your GNUCash documentation looks wonderful. You're obviously using DocBook, but tell me, what toolchain do you use to convert to PDF? Very handsomely done! Jason Forwarding to the GnuCash developers

Re: Help manual edit

2012-02-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2012-02-26, at 12:38, David Carlson wrote: Hi, I am using a windows 7 computer and have yet to set up an equivalent to xmllint. This time I will attach my edited xml file and ask for someone to validate my changes. There are only a few minor edits and I really expect the

Re: Need help with documentation edits

2012-02-25 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2012-02-24, at 19:52, David Carlson wrote: […] Do I need to install xmllint separately from subversion? If so, how do I do that? Yes, xmllint is a separate command-line tool which has the job of checking XML files for correctness. As noted in the wiki page, xmllint is part

Re: Need help with documentation edits

2012-02-25 Thread Yawar Amin
David, On 2012-02-24, at 19:52, David Carlson wrote: […] in a command window in Windows 7 I succeeded in checking out […] Do I need to install xmllint separately from subversion? If so, how do I do that? Sorry, just noticed you’re on Windows. My advice is skip trying to use xmllint

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

2012-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
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 being abusive, but we can just point them to the disclaimer and

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

2012-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi all, On 2012-01-19, at 18:33, Donald Allen wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Yawar Amin yawar.a...@gmail.com 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

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-11-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: [...] So far I haven't found the rather extensive user documentation I'm used to seeing as a longtime gnucash user. Is it in the source tree too? Or somewhere else. Do I have to use a different make

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: [...] One of the hallmarks of Scheme is its metaprogrammability, for applications just like this. And its simple syntax promotes this. I've started writing a proof-of-concept declarative report (

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2011-11-15, at 20:43, Derek Atkins wrote: […] My preference would be to move it out of Yawar's user page onto a real page and then we could link from there. Or better yet, let's get the changes into the sources themselves so we could use sometihng like doxygen to generate

Re: Scripting

2011-11-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, I think the wiki is the best place to start. For example I've been compiling a Scheme API reference on my user page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin You can also easily create a dedicated page once you sign up for a wiki account there. Btw, the Scheme bindings do more

Re: r21533 - gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C - Bug #651886

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
OK, On 2011-11-09, at 09:00, Derek Atkins wrote: […] Looks good. :) Committed and bug resolved. Cheers PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2011-11-11, at 11:47, Geert Janssens wrote: […] Is there a way to create a branch via the github interface ? Or do I have to create one on my local repo and push it ? I didn't seem to find a feature on the website, but perhaps I missed it. I'm not very comfortable yet with te

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, run: git push origin :master This pushes an empty branch name (the part before the colon) from your local repo to the master branch of the origin repo, effectively deleting it. Regards, Yawar Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On vrijdag 11 november 2011, Yawar Amin

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-09 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.dewrote: [...] Same for me - I was able to svn checkout one of my other normal git repos, but with gnucash I, too, got 502 Bad Gateway. However, it came up with a trunk and branches directory, so that I had to

Re: r21533 - gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C - Bug #651886

2011-11-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek and David, On 2011-11-08, at 18:40, David T. wrote: […] warning paraThe Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable account types are used by the business features. Additions or modifications to these accounts should only be made using app;'s business features. Users should

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-07 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-11-07, at 04:54, Christian Stimming wrote: […] My suggestion is to move the main git repo also to a github one, and not maintaining our own source code server. My reasons for this is an easier administration of adding main commit access, and also a much easier handing over of

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-07 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Christian Stimming christ...@cstimming.dewrote: Zitat von Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com: [...] [...] The windows automatic build scripts still depend on svn and won't work with git. Right now the web site update, docs nightly build script, doxygen

Re: Auto-Complete Search Method

2011-11-05 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-11-04, at 22:41, GreenLED wrote: […] In short, when you search using auto-complete, completely IGNORE place-holder accounts. In this way, you can reach your desired account MUCH faster, and much more effectively. I think until you get leaf-node search for accounts, you might

Re: r21516 Commit message

2011-11-05 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Mike, On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mike Evans mi...@saxicola.idps.co.ukwrote: The commit message should be: Bug #457401 - Print invoice should not be disabled for unposted invoices Enable printing of unposted invoices. I'm using git and forgot the change to change the commit message.

Re: Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

2011-08-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-08-27, at 14:47, Florian Haas wrote: […] Is there any other hidden clever shortcut which will also work if you select a partial account number? So is there any way to type, say, 42 and some magic key, and then get a dropdown with all account numbers *starting* with 42? No, that

Re: Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

2011-08-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Florian, On 2011-08-24, at 08:32, Florian Haas wrote: […] Now, while GnuCash does allow for accounts to be assigned a number, those numbers are not available to actually be selected in the register when making an entry. That complicates matters for users using a numbered accounting

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-07-09 Thread Yawar Amin
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 aren't put off by the extra parentheses, I guess we could replace all the parens with more HTML-reminiscent characters like and , so you’d

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-07-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Folks, On 2011-07-08, at 01:15, Yawar Amin wrote: […] I like the idea of XML - HTML + CSS + JavaScript plots. How about moving to a completely declarative XML report, where we use XML tags to ask for things like account names and balances, and using the Scheme (or […] I got to thinking

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-07-07 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-07-07, at 21:48, Tim M wrote: […] Thoughts? I like the idea of XML - HTML + CSS + JavaScript plots. How about moving to a completely declarative XML report, where we use XML tags to ask for things like account names and balances, and using the Scheme (or Python) reporting engine to

Re: Bounty for a bugfix: Have register window Filter-By settings be saved and restored

2011-06-28 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Christian, On 2011-06-28, at 03:09, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Dienstag, 28. Juni 2011 schrieb Tim M: […] […] Then again, I don't know what other options are out there. I collected the options here: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program The next one to try would be

Wiki page `FAQ' spammed

2011-04-18 Thread Yawar Amin
Can someone revert the latest change?[1] I’m getting a timeout error trying to undo ‘Seojobs11’s helpful contribution of replacing all the FAQs with SEO tips. Regards, Yawar [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQaction=history PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, Trying to understand your suggestion. Questions below: On 2011-01-08, at 17:16, John Ralls wrote: […] Maybe instead you could create a fake-master branch off of master in your git-svn repo and tie fake-master to github's master. You mean: [git-svn master] git checkout -b

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-07, at 23:56, John Ralls wrote: […] I've moved you into the owners group. Do what you will. Thanks. I’ve pushed a new gnucash repository, as well as a gnucash-docs repository. I've attached the authors file I made. If you reimport from svn it will match up svn accounts

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-07 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-07, at 16:41, John Ralls wrote: […] Meanwhile, I see that Yawar has pushed his own git svn import onto the Github repo and also pushed a commit in a new, rather weirdly-named branch. Yawar, since you have the svn data that goes with that import, you've bought keeping

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2011-01-04, at 15:11, John Ralls wrote: […] In trying to find out, I read to the bottom of the git-svn man page, where I found a section called Caveats. The first paragraph says: For the sake of simplicity and interoperating with a less-capable system (SVN), it is

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2011-01-03, at 11:53, Derek Atkins wrote: […] Apparently there are also issues with importing branches and tags appropriately, as per John's other email. There is an issue in that git-svn imports branches and tags as remote refs (roughly, pointers to the head of a branch).

Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
Does anyone have a public, maintained Git repo of the entire GnuCash source tree? I’m trying to set up an Ubuntu 10.10 build so I can tweak some stuff and try it out. I’d prefer not using git-svn to gulp down the entire svn history from the svn.gnucash.org server. On another note, now that

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-01-02, at 19:41, John Ralls wrote: […] On another note, now that 2.4.0 is out, how do we feel about setting up an official Git repo, say git.gnucash.org? Or even an official GnuCash repo on GitHub/Gitorious/something else. Not that I know of, but I'm willing to make one and put

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
migration including history. Actually, Git’s history import is pretty much rock-solid. The only thing that’s less than perfect is that author names and email addresses aren’t automatically imported. But this can be solved by giving the importer a map file like the following: yawaramin = Yawar

Re: Onwards!

2010-12-29 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2010-12-28, at 16:44, Christian Stimming wrote: […] I think bugzilla leaves it up to the project to define what the semantics of such an enhancement request is. (That's different from a bug, which either is a bug or it's not in bugzilla.) That's an open question: What should we

Re: [Bug 638227] New: Concept Guide §7 .2: New Account Hierarchy menu command path a nd new file creation

2010-12-29 Thread Yawar Amin
Derek, On 2010-12-29, at 09:21, Derek Atkins wrote: […] On a related note, what is the difference between New File and New Account Hierarchy in practice? It seems to me they accomplish the same thing. The difference is whether or not you start with a new (empty) file. The latter (New

Re: [Bug 638227] New: Concept Guide §7 .2: New Account Hierarchy menu command path a nd new file creation

2010-12-28 Thread Yawar Amin
I’m working on a documentation update for the bug below. I’ve attached a patch, will commit in a few days if all OK. On a related note, what is the difference between New File and New Account Hierarchy in practice? It seems to me they accomplish the same thing. Cheers, Yawar On 2010-12-28,

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