Re: What's left for 1.4?

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Peticolas
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > I believe that there were some segfaults - have you managed to locate > them? I've gotten two reports, but nothing specific enough to debug with. At any rate, they seem to be rare, certainly far less frequent than in the 1.2.5 version. > Anything else need to be d

What's left for 1.4?

2000-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I believe that there were some segfaults - have you managed to locate them? Anything else need to be done? -- Robert Merkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Financial Calculator

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Peticolas
Terry Boldt writes: > > I would be happy to work with somebody to incorporate this calculator into > gnucash. I think it would be useful. > So do I -- it would be very useful and I would be happy to work with you on incorporating it. I presume you would be willing to place it under the GPL lice

Financial Calculator

2000-06-14 Thread Terry Boldt
I reviewed the CVS page listing features for future development. I noticed that one feature is a financial calculator. I already have one in the "QTAwk" language, which is my extension of awk and gawk. Since QTAwk is almost exactly C, converting to standard C would be extremely easy. I have been

Re: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-14 Thread John Hasler
> How are you going to figure out which limit to apply at any given time? I thought the problem here was to test for zero while allowing for floating-point error. If so, the value for epsilon should be based on an analysis of the possible floating point errors, and is likely to be many orders of

Re: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-14 Thread Terry Boldt
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:47:56AM +0200, Herbert Thoma wrote: > > Terry Boldt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I also suggest that you make it EPSILON instead of .001 and define > > > > > EPSILON in some header file. Please don't hard code constants. > > > > > > > > Actually, I'd much rather se

Re: Help tracking down a gnome(?) problem on FreeBSD

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Peticolas
Matthew Condell writes: > hi, > > In the process of getting 1.3.99/100 to compile cleanly on > FreeBSD (which it does now-thanks Dave!), I had to upgrade > gnome on my box. > > The problem is now whenever I click on any field in the > register, besides the date field, gnucash crashes with > th

Help tracking down a gnome(?) problem on FreeBSD

2000-06-14 Thread Matthew Condell
hi, In the process of getting 1.3.99/100 to compile cleanly on FreeBSD (which it does now-thanks Dave!), I had to upgrade gnome on my box. The problem is now whenever I click on any field in the register, besides the date field, gnucash crashes with the error "(floating point exception)". (Th

Re: version 1.3.100 on SuSE?

2000-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could try to compile g-wrap myself, but its documentation > does not make it clear that I can control where it places all its files. > (nor is it clear I can uninstall cleanly -- anybodu know?) g-wrap is a standard automak'ed package, so you can just

Re: version 1.3.100 on SuSE?

2000-06-14 Thread Herbert Thoma
Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm starting to install version 1.3.100 on SuSE Linux. > > First, I notice I don't have g-wrap. Unless I am mistaken, this package > does not appear in either the SuSE 6.3 or 6.4 distribution. Yes, it's NOT in SuSE 6.3 or 6.4. > I download g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm from

Re: denominating currency - was: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-14 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Shimpei Yamashita wrote: > BTW, the American dollar goes down to more than two decimal places if > you're looking at stock quotes, because the unit there is sixteenth of a > dollar. Or 1/32 or 1/256 or ... Prices are handled differently from amounts. The price is multiplie

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > It seems to me that recover-from-log is a cleaner solution. > We make the logs for this purpose and keep them continuously > up-to-date, don't we? > > This should fit in the engine, or immediately above it; the data base > could be considered to consist

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
> T.Pospisek's MailLists writes: > > On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > > > > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me > > > > about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can't > > > > r

version 1.3.100 on SuSE? (fwd)

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
> I'm starting to install version 1.3.100 on SuSE Linux. > > First, I notice I don't have g-wrap. Unless I am mistaken, this package > does not appear in either the SuSE 6.3 or 6.4 distribution. > I download g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm from the gnucash web site. > > I rpm -i --test g-wrap-0.9.1-1.

version 1.3.100 on SuSE?

2000-06-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm starting to install version 1.3.100 on SuSE Linux. First, I notice I don't have g-wrap. Unless I am mistaken, this package does not appear in either the SuSE 6.3 or 6.4 distribution. I download g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm from the gnucash web site. I rpm -i --test g-wrap-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm, and a

Re: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-14 Thread Shimpei Yamashita
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:47:56AM +0200, Herbert Thoma wrote: > Terry Boldt wrote: > > > > > > > > > I also suggest that you make it EPSILON instead of .001 and define > > > > EPSILON in some header file. Please don't hard code constants. > > > > > > Actually, I'd much rather see something like

Re: g-wrap .debs and .rpms

2000-06-14 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gwrapguile would be a misleading name for the source package because > g-wrap actually supports wrapping C libraries for rscheme as well as > guile. Right, it should just be g-wrap (or gwrap). In the long run, it might not even be scheme only.

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > > For implementing this, what about checking a "time since last > > autosave" every time a transaction is committed (language might be > > less than precise here, correct me if I'm wrong). If we're over the > > threshold, autosave. Comments, anyone? > > I think

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Dave Peticolas
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > T.Pospisek's MailLists writes: > > On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > > > > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me > > > > about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash ha

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
T.Pospisek's MailLists writes: > On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me > > > about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can't > > > remember if it

Re: Stability of 1.3.99

2000-06-14 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On 13 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I last entered all of my transactions, which would have taken me > > about an hour, I had just finished and then GNUcash had a crash. I can't > > remember if it was a seg fault or bus error or what, but I subse

Re: non-functional 'if clause

2000-06-14 Thread Herbert Thoma
Terry Boldt wrote: > > > > > > I also suggest that you make it EPSILON instead of .001 and define > > > EPSILON in some header file. Please don't hard code constants. > > > > Actually, I'd much rather see something like a > > > > (gnc:currency-zero? currency x) > > > > that would know the appr

Business line of the project

2000-06-14 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Willis Yonker writes: > Hello all. I have a need for a piece of software that is similar to the > design goals of the business end of GNUCash. Actually, right now I use > Quickbooks Pro but it doesn't do some of the basic things that I need > such as automatic monthly billing. I was wonderi