Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Al Snell
On 8 Dec 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: > Also, I'm looking at network protocols. When designing a network > protocol, I don't like assuming you have 100BaseT between your client > and server. That means you have to make protocols as compact as > possible. I also don't like to compress a network pr

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread David Merrill
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:56:20AM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > Rob Browning writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > > > > > jody suggested that the gnumeric folks might be receptive to an > > > app-neutral refactoring of the financial stuff in gnumeric. If we can > >

Financial library

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent idea. Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just get going and if we start producing something good other people can get involved as they see fit? --

Re: Salutations

2000-12-08 Thread David Merrill
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:37:12PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have been using gnucash for awhile now, and I'm interested in > > helping with the development. I've been following your conversation > > on rdbms, and I think I can help with that mo

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > > > jody suggested that the gnumeric folks might be receptive to an > > app-neutral refactoring of the financial stuff in gnumeric. If we can > > make a freestanding library from their code, we can share it with them > > and

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Bill Gribble writes: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > Bill, you wanted some information about ROI calculation. > > > > All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting > > at this URL: > > > > http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/J

Interesting URL's

2000-12-08 Thread Linas Vepstas
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Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > jody suggested that the gnumeric folks might be receptive to an > app-neutral refactoring of the financial stuff in gnumeric. If we can > make a freestanding library from their code, we can share it with them > and hopefully get some synergy out of it.

Re: Salutations

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been using gnucash for awhile now, and I'm interested in > helping with the development. I've been following your conversation > on rdbms, and I think I can help with that module. > > I do Oracle programming and I'm pretty good with SQL and data

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The 50MB of RAM you're worried about is a *BUG*, and it needs to be > > fixed. Other than that, and some performance work that seems fairly > > Is this a bug we can fix? Or is it a bug in libXML? I've n

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Dave Peticolas
writes: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > > All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting > > at this URL: > > > > http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/June-2000/msg00409.php3 > > > > This calculations are slightly nontrivial, so sharing

Salutations

2000-12-08 Thread David Merrill
Greetings everyone, I have been using gnucash for awhile now, and I'm interested in helping with the development. I've been following your conversation on rdbms, and I think I can help with that module. I do Oracle programming and I'm pretty good with SQL and database design in general. I can re

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Bill Gribble
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting > at this URL: > > http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/June-2000/msg00409.php3 > > This calculations are slightly nontrivial, so sharing them with > gnumeric

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Patrick Spinler
I wrote: > > To a first approximation. At least, all the databases appear to support > the data types required by the SQL92 standard, and this standard > includes all the types you'd expect (several sizes of integer & floating > point variables, character strings, date fields, money fields, blob

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Patrick Spinler
Derek Atkins wrote: > > > > Not everything in the GnuCash data is an SQL primitive data type. > > > > I'm having a hard time thinking of anything. I was planning that we > > go out of the way to make sure we use primitives for all the primary > > stuff. As I mentioned before, this might even me

Re: ROI discussion

2000-12-08 Thread Bill Gribble
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:04:59PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > Bill, you wanted some information about ROI calculation. > > All this stuff is all archived in the ML - read the thread starting > at this URL: > > http://gnucash.org/gnucash-devel/June-2000/msg00409.php3 > > This calculati

Re: tax documentation

2000-12-08 Thread linas
It's been rumoured that Richard -Gilligan- Uschold said: > If anyone knows of a > source for the TXF export format spec, it would resolve this problem. well, I grepped on google but didn't find anything. --linas ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The 50MB of RAM you're worried about is a *BUG*, and it needs to be > fixed. Other than that, and some performance work that seems fairly Is this a bug we can fix? Or is it a bug in libXML? I've not done any profiling to determine this. > straightfo