Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Derek Atkins
James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From user to user you have to transfer some info. Whether it's a 2k > file or a 90byte string doesn't seem like much of a difference to me. > > Jim >From a UI perspective, I think that being able to transfer a '90byte string', most likely in the fo

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread James LewisMoss
> On 09 Apr 2001 11:23:11 -0400, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Derek> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Consider the following control file: Derek> And how does one get this control file from client to client, Derek> user to user? What happens if different users

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:01:31PM -0400, James LewisMoss was heard to remark: > This brings up something I was thinking. > > It'd be nice to stop using "files" as such to save gnucash data. > Instead give the user a default path (which they can add to if they > like) and search for books on that

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 11:50:48AM -0400, Derek Atkins was heard to remark: > I, too, like plan A. However instead of thinking about files, I'd > prefer if we did keep things in the abstract 'book'. A book could be Yes. Although its kind of hacked up at the moment, and needs cleaning, writing

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Linas Vepstas
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:12:50AM +1000, Conrad Canterford was heard to remark: > Linas Vepstas wrote: > > > Personally, I'd vote for Plan A (and not because I believe more work = > better product). > > I'm already finding load times (both file and register) to be getting > close to uncomforta

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Derek Atkins
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider the following control file: And how does one get this control file from client to client, user to user? What happens if different users have different control files on their clients while trying to access the same book? However, I do li

Re: subtotals in reports; accounts with children and transactions

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:50:18 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Charlton Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Christian Stimming wrote: > > > Once again we had the question whether it makes sense at all to have > > accounts with children in the hierarchy (non-leaf accounts) w

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On 07 Apr 2001 11:50:48 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I, too, like plan A. However instead of thinking about files, I'd > prefer if we did keep things in the abstract 'book'. A book could > be a file, it could be a database, it could be a remote

Docs for Scheme, Report Development

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
I just bounced a patch _primarily_ for documentation [though with a few Scheme changes] over to the patch list. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/resume.html "Linux! Guerrilla Unix Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark