Invalid option `-Werror-implicit-function-declaration'

2000-06-17 Thread Matthew Condell
I've just tried compiling the latest CVS version on FreeBSD 3.4 In both configure and compiling, I get the error: cc1: Invalid option `-Werror-implicit-function-declaration' For example, an excerpt from config.log: configure:5461: checking for XpmReadFileToXpmImage in -lXpm configure:5480: gcc

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Terry Boldt writes: > > > This may not be a big deal for the total gnucash package - but > > using scaled integer arthimetic for the financial calculator and > > amortization schedule computations I am finalizing and getting > > ready to send to Dave

Re: Adding Palm Support

2000-06-17 Thread Gary Bickford
Bill Gribble wrote: > Gary Bickford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At this time there's no easy way to upload the data on Linux - one > > has to use "backup" in JPilot, for example, and then there's no tool > > for accessing the data. > > Are you sure there's no export tool? I used the Newton v

Re: Adding Palm Support

2000-06-17 Thread Bill Gribble
Gary Bickford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At this time there's no easy way to upload the data on Linux - one > has to use "backup" in JPilot, for example, and then there's no tool > for accessing the data. Are you sure there's no export tool? I used the Newton version of PocketMoney for years

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are a scheme programmer, right? I maintain that IEEE floating > point is optimised for inexact real computations. As such, it is an > ideal represenation of Scheme inexact real classes. On the otherhand, > I also think that accounting, by it's n

Re: Adding Palm Support

2000-06-17 Thread Gary Bickford
Folks, I'm new so please excuse if I've missed something. I was reading the thread regarding Palm support. I use a shareware Palm application called Pocket Money from http://www.catamount.com. It is much more capable than the Palm expense application, and the writer has published the database f

Re: Display order of Deposits vs. Withdrawals in Register window

2000-06-17 Thread Dave Peticolas
Kevin Reid writes: > I just tried out the Gnucash 1.3.99 developers release and I have to say > that I was very impressed. Great job all !! Thank you. > However, I have come across a slight issue with regards to how Gnucash > displays transactions for deposits and withdrawals. For example, if

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Randolph Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Every time interest is computed. But right now we never compute interest. You *hand enter* the value. However, as I said before. I agree that there are going to be times when we need to round, but that doesn't have anything to do with the underlyin

Display order of Deposits vs. Withdrawals in Register window

2000-06-17 Thread Kevin Reid
I just tried out the Gnucash 1.3.99 developers release and I have to say that I was very impressed. Great job all !! However, I have come across a slight issue with regards to how Gnucash displays transactions for deposits and withdrawals. For example, if I make both a deposit and a withdrawal

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
> When bankers first used mainframes, some slick programmers established > "hidden accounts" which received the tinsy fractional part of the > interest, the part lost when rounding DOWN to integer pennies ... > > It wasn't much, but as it happen at the end of every day, on every > savings account

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Bill Gribble
Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But every time I make the entry, gnucash is changing the price. Please describe how you made the entry you describe below. I'd like to try to reproduce it myself. > If you would > accept the price as 3 for $2.00 and > accept that I purchased 1

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > Repeating this example doesn't make it any more relevant. This is a > straw man. > > Gnucash isn't responsible for computing how much the store charges > you; you enter $2.00, or $2.01, whichever your receipt tells you. But every time I make the entry,

Re: Default actions in non-bank accts

2000-06-17 Thread Dave Peticolas
Ed Porras writes: > > Is there a reason why credit accounts do not have some of the same > default actions (or at least a subset) that bank accounts do? i.e: > Credit, Online, AutoDebit.. Nope. I'll add some. Off the top of my head, it should also have: Credit, Fee, Int (interest), Online, and

Re: denominating currency

2000-06-17 Thread Bill Gribble
Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assume the case where an item is priced at 3 for $2. > For this discussion, the price NEVER changes. > > Purchase one item. > and another > and a third > Total cost = 3* $0.67 = $2.01 > Now purchase 3 at once. Cost = $2.00 Repeating this example

Default actions in non-bank accts

2000-06-17 Thread Ed Porras
Is there a reason why credit accounts do not have some of the same default actions (or at least a subset) that bank accounts do? i.e: Credit, Online, AutoDebit.. -e -- Ed Porras [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ep -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class

2000-06-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Shimpei Yamashita wrote: > Well, 22 trillion Italian lire is "only" about 11 billion (US) dollars (US) But what is the smallest amount that accountants use for commerce? IOW, if I sell something for 1/3 million lira, exactly how many will be posted to my banking account.

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class (with proposed implementation)

2000-06-17 Thread Shimpei Yamashita
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:56:29PM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > Can someone tell me if I am missing anything here? > > Needs of a currency class for GnuCash: > == > > Assumption: Unless otherwise specified, all currencies are the same > denomination (all dollars, all lir

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class

2000-06-17 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > _Can't_ we assume 64 bit integers? No, you should assume that there is a struct definition. Period. > I would strongly argue _against_ gmp: It means that money values are > no longer of fixed size. Although I strongly agree that gmp is of any re

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class (with proposed implementation)

2000-06-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:01:21 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Buddha Buck writes: > > Can someone tell me if I am missing anything here? > > > allow us to properly handle dollar values as large as > > $92,233,720,368,547,758.07 without loss of pr

Re: Log File behaviour

2000-06-17 Thread Dylan Paul Thurston
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:41:29PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > > Now, those .xac files - are they the previous data file, or are they > > > written in parallel with the main file? (Or copied after the main file > > > is written?) > > > > Th

Re: Needs of a currency arithmetic class (with proposed implementation)

2000-06-17 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > > We can't assume that every architecture will have a 64-bit integer. > > > > For that reason, and for the simple fact that if we are going to go to > > the trouble of doing this, we might as well go all the way :), I think > > we should use gmp's multiple precision