Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: >> Sure. Merging best of breed toys into goffice would be a help. >> I suspect that overtime it may make sense to migrate towards some of >> the goffice data types to avoid having to map in and out, but that > > I'm not sure what you refer to when you say

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Goodwin
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:13, Linas Vepstas wrote: > My gut feel is that libgda offers the wrong abstractions. > Although gnucash data can be (is) represented as SQL, that's > the wrong place to work. There's a lot of pulling things together > that must happen before the data is reportable. For

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread msevior
>> > > I can show >> > > you how to construct documents that use libgda to pull in content >> from whatever data source you want for programmable fields laid >> out in tables. >> > >> > My gut feel is that libgda offers the wrong abstractions. >> > Although gnucash data can be (is) represented as S

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:06:34PM +, Charles Goodwin was heard to remark: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:13, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > My gut feel is that libgda offers the wrong abstractions. > > Although gnucash data can be (is) represented as SQL, that's > > the wrong place to work. There's a

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:43:18AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to remark: > > I wasn't suggesting this code be in AbiWord. I was meant that we could > invent some fields that could be filled *explicitly* by GNUcash. AbiWord > would call out to the external GNUcash program via a plugin to ex

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 08:59:39AM -0500, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > > I don't think SQL is worse per se -- our implemention might be. I'm > definitely keen on moving to an all-SQL database choice, either an > embedded DB as the "file" replacement, or PG for larger sites. This > is a hi

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:00:39PM +, Calum Benson was heard to remark: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:02, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > In my particular need (I cannot speak in generality on this), > > I want to have a list of items, on say, a neutral background, > > and some of the items on the li

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: > Or the evolution people can do a GET against gnucashd to get upcoming > scheduled transactions and invoice-due-dates info for the summary page. If you can find an industry standard xml markup for representing calander appoi

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:52:31AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: | On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: | > Or the evolution people can do a GET against gnucashd to get upcoming | > scheduled transactions and invoice-due-dates info for the summary page. [The cont

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/26/2004 12:01 PM, I believe that Josh Sled wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:52:31AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: | On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: | > Or the evolution people can do a GET against gnucashd to get upcoming | > scheduled transactions and

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:10:26PM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: | >Evolution already uses iCalendar, so it's all good. :) | > | | And Mozilla and Korganizer and Outlook (I hear, anyway...) | But it's not XML markup, is it? So? XML is sometimes overrated. :) To be clear: * iCalendar [RFC2445]: not

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Goodwin
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:13, Josh Sled wrote: > So? XML is sometimes overrated. :) > > To be clear: > * iCalendar [RFC2445]: not XML > * RDF Calendar: RDF [can be serialized as [RDF/]XML, or in other forms]. Just a slightl ramble; if you want XML then go with RDF Calender and serialise it as XML

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:43:52PM +, Charles Goodwin wrote: | On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:13, Josh Sled wrote: | Just a slightl ramble; if you want XML then go with RDF Calender and | serialise it as XML. +1 from me, even though it's all talk at this point. :) | An RDF Calender <> iCalender

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:06:06PM +, Calum Benson was heard to remark: > On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:44, Linas Vepstas wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:00 > > > Well, no. The icon/progress indicator is much too small. You have to > > focus your eyes to see it (literally). You can't just s

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:13:49PM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: > > To be clear: > * iCalendar [RFC2445]: not XML > * RDF Calendar: RDF [can be serialized as [RDF/]XML, or in other forms]. Well, all that's left is to write a gnucash conduit to export scheduled transactions as ical/rdf, r

Re: [Libofx-devel] Re: python script for OFX Statement Download

2004-02-26 Thread John Reynolds
cb, Thanks for this. I expect it should be useful. John R --Original Message- From: cb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:40 pm To: Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [Libofx-devel] Re: python script for OFX Statem

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:55:22AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote: | On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:13:49PM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: | > | > To be clear: | > * iCalendar [RFC2445]: not XML | > * RDF Calendar: RDF [can be serialized as [RDF/]XML, or in other forms]. | | Well, all that's left

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread David Hampton
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:59, Derek Atkins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > > I'm not sure what you refer to when you say "data types". > > If you mean using things like gconf, then yes, we should do that. > > Our current way of dealing with user defaults & etc. is homebrew > >

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) writes: > yes, I think I have a whiz-bang automagic stunt that will do > this, by using (don't tell anyone) dwi. I think it will make > a lot of the exensibility problems go away. (don't be > mislead by the dwi web page, I would *not* use dwi for the gui, > only

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Clayton Carter
> Personally I consider a move to an embedded-SQL engine higher priority > than book closing (although not necessarily as high as cap-gains). > Just FYI... Can someone clarify all of this SQL backend talk? From the standpoint of a home user, I'm perfectly happy with my common file backen

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Clayton Carter
> I like the server idea because evo can then do a 'GET > /scheduled?count=10[&format=iCal]' at it's leisure, w/o user intervention. > This is obviously work on both sides ... Hi all. I'm going to play curmudgeon again and say that, while this is all well and good, I don't use evo and I

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:58:11PM -0500, Clayton Carter wrote: | Hi all. I'm going to play curmudgeon again and say that, | while this is all well and good, I don't use evo and I have no plans | to. In fact, I don't want my GC SXs showing up in my email client at | all. Well, it depend

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Clayton Carter
> | PS - as for the question of how to make evo act on a SX, what's wrong > | w/ 'PUT /scheduled?SXid=0?action=enter' ? > > PUT is already the verb in there. If you're going to have the "action" > part, then "PUT" just becomes "DO", which isn't really useful. Right, OK, so PUT is

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Herbert Thoma
Clayton Carter schrieb: > > > Personally I consider a move to an embedded-SQL engine higher priority > > than book closing (although not necessarily as high as cap-gains). > > Just FYI... > > Can someone clarify all of this SQL backend talk? From the > standpoint of a home user, I'm perf

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Charles Goodwin
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 19:58, Clayton Carter wrote: > > I like the server idea because evo can then do a 'GET > > /scheduled?count=10[&format=iCal]' at it's leisure, w/o user intervention. > > This is obviously work on both sides ... > > Hi all. I'm going to play curmudgeon again and say tha

Re: GnuCash page on GO site

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:41:13PM -0500, Clayton Carter was heard to remark: > PS - As a home user, I'd prefer see book closing sooner to later. Yes, I'm trying to clear my plate and get around to finishing this. Its mostly there; I suspect I need to do more testing & debugging, and review the c

Re: CVS Data Moved; Accounts created.. waiting on DNS

2004-02-26 Thread Josh Sled
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:03:48AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: | At this point all the data has been moved, and accounts have been | created.. So we're just waiting on DNS to get moved. Once that's | changed we should be up and running again. I'm having an issue tagging the tree: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:04:21PM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: > | > > | > * iCalendar [RFC2445]: not XML > | > * RDF Calendar: RDF [can be serialized as [RDF/]XML, or in other forms]. > | > | Well, all that's left is to write a gnucash conduit to export > | scheduled transactions as ic

Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

2004-02-26 Thread Christopher Browne
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark: > > Or the evolution people can do a GET against gnucashd to get upcoming > > scheduled transactions and invoice-due-dates info for the summary page. > > If you can find an industry standard xml markup for representing > ca