Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Christopher Browne said: > c) By virtue of being different, it encourages the decoupling of >front end from back end, which is Highly Desirable. OK, you convinced me. Its a good idea. Note, though, the 'engine' is already mostly (I want to say 'completely') decoupled

Re: Transaction Locking

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Christopher Browne said: > > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:25:48 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as > Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:46:52 -0600, Christopher Browne > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > Christopher> d) The o

Re: Transaction Locking

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said: > > I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction." Agreed. While this might work really well with reiserfs, must of the world is/will be on ext2fs/ext3fs. Also, lots of dirs tends to crater samba and/or nfs performance. With the c

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Christopher Browne writes: > I see two things: > a) A necessity to break some bottlenecks, and > b) An opportunity to make the software greatly more scalable. The most important problem facing the GnuCash team right now is GnuCash's unreliability (one version of GnuCash crashed on me once; the

Re: date range in register.

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Kevin A. Foss said: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:46:52PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:37:49 GMT, the world broke into rejoicing as > > Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > > However, I've noticed that if I set the date range t

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 20:20:08 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:02:00 -0500 (EST), Russell Nelson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Russell> Christopher Browne writes: > >> On 27 Dec 1999 11:37:07 EST, the world broke

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Rob Walker said: > linas> Why not the reverse of the above? > > I am confused. What are you saying, linas? I am okay with either > one, and moving back a field "feels" okay (to me) when I try it at > home. As I walk through my email, I haven't yet uncovered the original

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:02:00 -0500 (EST), Russell Nelson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Russell> Christopher Browne writes: >> On 27 Dec 1999 11:37:07 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as >> Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per

Re: Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Russell Nelson
Christopher Browne writes: > On 27 Dec 1999 11:37:07 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction." > > After a while, especially with a busy set of accounts, this can amount > > to thousan

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Walker
> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 23:21:47 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: >> >> Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > 6. Too many characters: If you type in a character which would be the >> >third character in a two character field

Re: date range in register.

1999-12-27 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Sun, Dec 26, 1999 at 11:46:52PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 16:37:49 GMT, the world broke into rejoicing as > Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Rob Walker wrote: > > > > > > is it possible to disable the date range in the register display? I > > > would li

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Rob Browning said: > > Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 6. Too many characters: If you type in a character which would be the > >third character in a two character field, or the fifth character in > >a four character field, nothing will happen. You h

Directories as Transactions (or vice versa?)

1999-12-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On 27 Dec 1999 11:37:07 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction." > After a while, especially with a busy set of accounts, this can amount > to thousands (or in the case of a business, even mil

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. Backspace or delete over a date separator: If you hit backspace or >delete where the character to be deleted would be the the date >separator, I am not sure what to do. Either do nothing, or delete >the character on the other side of the s

Re: gnuc(r)ash - sorry I can't resist

1999-12-27 Thread Jan-Uwe Finck
On Mon, Dec 27, 1999 at 07:15:06PM +0100, Philippe Descamps wrote: > I am a french user of linux (kernel ver 2.2.13 Mandrake 6.1) with KDE > My version of lesstif is 0.89.4 You could try to use the Gnome-Version by getting it from CVS and comiling it yourself. This would delete your problem as w

Re: gnuc(r)ash - sorry I can't resist

1999-12-27 Thread Derek Atkins
I believe that this is a problem with GnuCash and LessTif 0.89. You should try to revert to LessTif 0.88, which should solve the file-save problem. -derek Philippe Descamps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am a french user of linux (kernel ver 2.2.13 Mandrake 6.1) with KDE > My version of les

gnuc(r)ash - sorry I can't resist

1999-12-27 Thread Philippe Descamps
I am a french user of linux (kernel ver 2.2.13 Mandrake 6.1) with KDE My version of lesstif is 0.89.4 I Should use gnucash for my personal account. I download rpm file gnucash-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm After intallation I type gnucash on the console and get the folowing lines: gnucash: bootstrap file is

Re: Financial Year

1999-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Christopher Browne writes: > There is not a single fixed date for this; businesses are permitted to > choose their year end arbitrarily. Not quite. In the US a corporation can choose the fiscal year for its very first tax return arbitrarily but may not change it without good reason. Individuals

Re: requirements for date field

1999-12-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 6. Too many characters: If you type in a character which would be the >third character in a two character field, or the fifth character in >a four character field, nothing will happen. You have to delete >characters before entering cha

Re: Transaction Locking

1999-12-27 Thread Derek Atkins
I'm not sure I like the model of "one directory per transaction." After a while, especially with a busy set of accounts, this can amount to thousands (or in the case of a business, even millions) of transactions. It just doesn't scale very well. Perhaps you could have a dbm per account? Or, bet

Financial Year

1999-12-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:13:38 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > BTW, does the US have the idea of a "financial year" for taxation > and financial reporting purposes? In Australia, the annual accounting > period is from July 1st, so profit ca

Transaction Locking

1999-12-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 22:25:48 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:46:52 -0600, Christopher Browne > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Christopher> d) The other thing that would logically go along with > Christopher> this

GnuCash 4 Gnome

1999-12-27 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
THOMAS ALLISON writes: > I just wanted to say to you and the GnuCash group that what you are doing is > totally cool! > > Remember this email when things are getting you down - you are all doing > good work and it is a good thing that you are doing. > > Tom Allison > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Th