David Merrill writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Gordon Oliver wrote:
> > So the denominator goes: smallest divisible unit. (amount atoms?)
> > And the numerator: number of smallest divisible units
>
> Got it now, thanks. The numerator value is in terms of the smallest
> unit of
David Merrill writes:
> Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> give me some feedback.
>
> Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
>
> 1. Architecture: A big, fuzzy cloud right now.
> 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> encryption over t
Robert Graham Merkel writes:
> The following code in latest CVS src/guile/Makefile.am is kinda machine-speci
> fic . . .
>
> FLAVOR=gnome guile -c \
> '(set! %load-path (cons "/usr/local/opt/g-wrap/share/guile" %load-p
> ath)) \
>(primitive-load "./gnc.gwp") \
>
The following code in latest CVS src/guile/Makefile.am is kinda machine-specific . . .
FLAVOR=gnome guile -c \
'(set! %load-path (cons "/usr/local/opt/g-wrap/share/guile" %load-path)) \
(primitive-load "./gnc.gwp") \
(gw:generate-module "gnc")'
CLEANFILES
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Jim Evins writes:
> > Hello,
> > I am the author of a program called gbonds, which may be of interest
> > to the gnucash developers. It is a small savings bond inventory program for
> > GNOME. More information can be found at
> >
> > http://sn
Ok. I have not had to use any database yet in my work so I have no real idea
about what is and is not available.
Phill
PS.
As a off-topic aside David M, I am enjoying the quotes in your sig.
> -Original Message-
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:41:34PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > Davi
David Merrill writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:47:04PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > Paul Fenwick writes:
> > >
> > > The good news is that I'm giving up the day-job to go back to
> > > consulting, which should hopefully leave me with much more time
> > > for open-source development and ot
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:47:04PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> Paul Fenwick writes:
> >
> > The good news is that I'm giving up the day-job to go back to
> > consulting, which should hopefully leave me with much more time
> > for open-source development and other things I enjoy. :) The
> > r
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:41:34PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> David Merrill writes:
> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:24PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> > > > give me
Paul Fenwick writes:
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> G'day GnuCash developers,
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:59:12PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> [snippage]
>
> > We alread
David Merrill writes:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:24PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> > > give me some feedback.
> > >
> > > Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> > >
> > >
David Merrill writes:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:14:31PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > David Merrill writes:
> > > Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> > > give me some feedback.
> > >
> > > Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> > >
> > > 1. Architecture: A
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:14:31PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> David Merrill writes:
> > Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> > give me some feedback.
> >
> > Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> >
> > 1. Architecture: A big, fuzzy cloud right now.
> > 2. Se
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:24PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> > give me some feedback.
> >
> > Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> >
> > 3. Table Schemas: Gaping holes.
> > I have
David Merrill writes:
> Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> give me some feedback.
>
> Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
>
> 1. Architecture: A big, fuzzy cloud right now.
> 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> encryption over t
> -Original Message-
> Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> give me some feedback.
>
> Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
>
> 3. Table Schemas: Gaping holes.
> I have quite a few questions about various fields that are marked with
> question marks in
Phillip J Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't see how the locking problem is a CM concern. I mean that you will
> have to solve the locking problem at the level of storing the new data before
> you need to worry about multilpe GUI's trying to read the file to see what
> needs to be cha
David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> True, security is a lot easier when everything's local.
Agreed.
> If the client accesses the server via ssh and is then logged onto the
> database using their user account on the db machine, where are the
> weaknesses? Where is it vulnerable?
To do t
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> WRT to over the wire encryption, I'd suggest looking into ssh port
> tunneling. That would let those who need it use something that is well
> tested and maintained, and those who don't ignore it completely. In
> either case, no need to deal with it in
Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> For the server and client on the same machine, this method provides a
> reasonable expectation of privacy for the database - file protections
> stop raw access to the file, and database user auth'ing stops people
> running a database engine aga
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:31:55PM -0600, Patrick Spinler wrote:
> David Merrill wrote:
> >
> > > Most database support auth'ing database users against the OS's auth
> > > method. Essentially, once you've logged into the system, as long as
> > > you're listed as a valid database user, you're oka
I wrote this dirt stupid script to build a searchable index for our
help files. The idea would be that it would be run at compile time to
allow runtime keyword searches.
Any reason y'all see why it couldn't actually be refined to the point
of being useful (it's really just a toy) and be used i
David Merrill wrote:
>
> > Most database support auth'ing database users against the OS's auth
> > method. Essentially, once you've logged into the system, as long as
> > you're listed as a valid database user, you're okay. I suggest we use
> > this method.
>
> The downside of that is the main
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Gordon Oliver wrote:
> So the denominator goes: smallest divisible unit. (amount atoms?)
> And the numerator: number of smallest divisible units
Got it now, thanks. The numerator value is in terms of the smallest
unit of measure for the item. Pennies in t
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:35:30PM -0800, Gordon Oliver wrote:
>
> > Or am I thinking too much like an American, and some
> > currencies could actually be held in the amount of 3/16, for example?
>
> probably ;-)
>
> some at least used to have div
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:51:03PM -0600, Patrick Spinler wrote:
>
> Other thoughts:
>
> In your SECURITY section:
>
> > Are we going to configure the database to use a separate login for each
> > user (individual username and pw for the database *itself*), or are we
> > going to handle that le
Tor-Øyvind Gundersen writes:
> > What if we annotated quotes with their source? Then quotes for
> > particular transactions could be excluded from analysis.
>
> That could work, yes. But I still fail to see why GnuCash would need
> to insert its own prices into a (possibly system-wide) quote rep
Other thoughts:
In your SECURITY section:
> Are we going to configure the database to use a separate login for each
> user (individual username and pw for the database *itself*), or are we
> going to handle that level of security ourselves, and then log into the
> database using a single userna
> Or am I thinking too much like an American, and some
> currencies could actually be held in the amount of 3/16, for example?
probably ;-)
some at least used to have divisions of 200 (for example, there used to be - and
perhaps still
is - a halfpence in Great Britain...)
Also common here ar
Hello,
I am the author of a technical stock analysis program called `gChartman',
and I think it might be interesting to discuss wether some kind of
gnucash/gchartman interoperability would make sense.
The pogram is hosted at http://gchartman.sourceforge.net.
First I'd like to give everyone a qu
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:45:33AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 13-Dec-00, 08:00 (CST), David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> > encryption over the wire, locking down the db itself (depends on the
> > db), and managi
On 13-Dec-00, 08:00 (CST), David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> encryption over the wire, locking down the db itself (depends on the
> db), and managing user permissions on some kind of capabilities model
> tbd.
WRT to ove
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:15:06AM -0600, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:04:08PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> > Would you please give me an example that uses both numerator and
> > denominator in each field? Or a set of example, if that is easier?
> > I'm having trouble seeing h
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:13:54AM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> I'm going to make a note that we may want to use a separate table. I'm
> not entirely sure yet, but it sounds better than my scheme.
Changed my mind; rewrote that section to incorporate your idea.
--
Dr. David C. Merrill
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:54:37AM -0600, Patrick Spinler wrote:
> David Merrill wrote:
> >
> > Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> >
> > 4. Auditing mechanism needs to be established. I wrote a proposal.
>
> David:
>
> I use an auditing method very similar to yours with two exceptions - I
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:04:08PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> Would you please give me an example that uses both numerator and
> denominator in each field? Or a set of example, if that is easier?
> I'm having trouble seeing how this works.
I'm not sure what you mean by "uses". The C data type
David Merrill wrote:
>
> Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
>
> 4. Auditing mechanism needs to be established. I wrote a proposal.
David:
I use an auditing method very similar to yours with two exceptions - I
save the auditing history in another table, therefore the auditing
flags, timestamp
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:28:11PM +, Al Snell wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David Merrill wrote:
>
> > Do you think people feel less able to contribute because I'm doing
> > this? If so, then by all means put it in cvs!
>
> No, no, this wasn't me saying "Oi! Put it in CVS you lazy slacker!"
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, David Merrill wrote:
> Do you think people feel less able to contribute because I'm doing
> this? If so, then by all means put it in cvs!
No, no, this wasn't me saying "Oi! Put it in CVS you lazy slacker!" - it
was me saying "I have a CVS server if you want one" :-)
ABS
--
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:07:35PM +, Al Snell wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Merrill wrote:
>
> > I'm beginning to work on the database schema for an eventual SQL back
> > end. I am keeping my notes in an ASCII file, which will always be
> > available at http://www.lupercalia.net/schema
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Merrill wrote:
> I'm beginning to work on the database schema for an eventual SQL back
> end. I am keeping my notes in an ASCII file, which will always be
> available at http://www.lupercalia.net/schema.txt
Would you like a CVS repository to keep it in? Then other peop
Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
give me some feedback.
Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
1. Architecture: A big, fuzzy cloud right now.
2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
encryption over the wire, locking down the db itself (d
Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> As far as the database itself, it may make sense to eventually
> separate it from GnuCash. In the short term, we kind of need it
> asap, so it will probably be a part of GnuCash.
Starting out as a GnuCash component is fine with me, as long as the
design allows it to be
Steven Rutter writes:
>
> A few months back I wrote a perl/gtk program called GtkPortfolio [can be foun
> on freshmeat]. It will automatically update quotes for multiple portfolios,
> view news, charts and allows you to set price alerts. I released it on
> freshmeat under the Artistic License bec
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