Re: Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:43, Derek Atkins wrote: > > the current situation, which is to display an ugly error message. > > > > The gnucash-doc package (upon installation) would then install a real > > help-topics-index.scm file over that bogus one. > > While a good idea in theory, it does not work

Re: head vs branch from CVS (was Re: Submitted and fixed bug#119001)

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wunder
On Monday 04 August 2003 10:58 am, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote: > > unless you ran a "make maintainer-clean" then you probably still have > some 1.8 turds lying around in your build tree. A clean checkout of > HEAD is probably the best solution. Did 'make maintainer-clean', then 'm

Re: Submitted and fixed bug #119001

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 03 August 2003 12:32 pm, someone claiming to be Daniel Hannum wrote: > Yep, those two bugs are a subset of what the patch fixes. In the future, > I will bother to check Bugzilla before I submit more bugs :) > > The patch is against CVS-head. There WERE changes in druid-loan.c > recently (

Re: Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The key point > > is going to be some way that gnucash can read the file, but it already > > has to read the help docs anyways. > > Not sure I follow you on this. But, maybe you mean gnucash will need > to know where help-topics-index.scm is installed t

Re: business intro

2003-08-04 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: I think an "Intro to Business Accounting" chapter is reasonable, where you introduce cash v. accrual accounting and define all the various business features that you discuss in "later" chapters. Yup, my thoughts exactly. Suggested additional text: [snip] Okay, I'll add this te

Re: Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: I have no objection to this move in the longer term. Certainly not in the 1.8 lifetime, but in HEAD/g2 we can head that way. Good. The key point is going to be some way that gnucash can read the file, but it already has to read the help docs anyways. Not sure I follow you on

Re: "Split txn account total bug", its reproducible now!

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Bug #118954 -derek Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I figured out how to get the "split transactions make account totals > not update correctly" bug to be reproducible with a simple account > structure. (in the past, I would only see this bug with complex > account structures). > > Bui

Re: Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
I have no objection to this move in the longer term. Certainly not in the 1.8 lifetime, but in HEAD/g2 we can head that way. The key point is going to be some way that gnucash can read the file, but it already has to read the help docs anyways. -derek Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > W

Re: business intro

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, wadda ya think about the text presented below (I just wrote it, > criticism will be very welcome)? It's a good start, I've got some additional text to suggest (see below). > Oh, also, where should this text go? A new "intro to business" > chapter? I

Moving help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Jon Lapham
Would it be acceptable if I was to try to remove help-topics-index.scm from the gnucash main source body and move it into gnucash-docs? (not now, as a future project) It seems odd that help-topics-index.scm is totally dependent on gnucash-docs, and yet resides in the gnucash package. In fact,

help-topics-index.scm

2003-08-04 Thread Jon Lapham
If it isn't a problem, could this get squeezed in for 1.8.5? src/scm/help-topics-index.scm Yes, it is a day after the string freeze, and it does change some strings. Absolutely no problem if it is too late. If nothing else, this will teach me to read my emails more closely (I thought the freez

business intro

2003-08-04 Thread Jon Lapham
Folks, I've been reading up on the cash vs accrual accounting issues, and it seems that this subject should be touched upon in the guide. However, it seems that the issue really only exists in the business world, as most personal finance books use the cash method. This is important for GnuCa

Re: head vs branch from CVS (was Re: Submitted and fixed bug#119001)

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>OK, how can I verify that I'm running HEAD? > >>I did the following > >>$ cp -a gnucash gnucash-head (to copy my copy of the CVS source tree) > > What branch is your checkout? > > I've been maintaining a relatively current 1.8 branch via a cron'd > scrip

head vs branch from CVS (was Re: Submitted and fixed bug #119001)

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wunder
On 8/4/2003 10:14 AM, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote: Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, how can I verify that I'm running HEAD? I did the following $ cp -a gnucash gnucash-head (to copy my copy of the CVS source tree) What branch is your checkout? I've been maintaining a

Re: Submitted and fixed bug #119001

2003-08-04 Thread Derek Atkins
Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, how can I verify that I'm running HEAD? > I did the following > $ cp -a gnucash gnucash-head (to copy my copy of the CVS source tree) What branch is your checkout? > $ cd gnucash-head > $ cvs update -r HEAD -Pd You don't need -r HEAD -- the HEAD bran

Re: Submitted and fixed bug #119001

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 03 August 2003 8:23 pm, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote: > Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On a side note. Would running CVS Head be reasonably safe these days? > > I've been wary since I thought that was where the gnome-2.0 work was > > being done. > > No, the gnome