Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:39:28 -0300, Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Atkins wrote: > > Ok, I know this comment will bite me when I run for president in > > 20 years, but I flip-flop! :) > > > > Honestly, tho, I was mostly joking. But it does sound like we want > > somewhat sepa

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:30:46 -0300, Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I think it is better to be accurate/complex than simple/wrong. > So, I changed the definition to your "...expensing capital purchases > over time...". Just nit-picking, but shouldn't it be "Depreciation is the ac

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: Ok, I know this comment will bite me when I run for president in 20 years, but I flip-flop! :) Honestly, tho, I was mostly joking. But it does sound like we want somewhat separate text for personal vs. business in this area. Perhaps we need separate sections/chapters for

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
David Harrison wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:59:29 -0300, Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basic Concepts: http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.8/C/gnucash-guide/dep_concepts1.html 1) I added the first sentence definition "Depreciation is the account method for tracking the decreasing value of an as

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Jon Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Uh, Derek, you are joking, right? This issue was brought up in the > beginning of this thread by David. But, I'll put the links in again. > > http://www.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2003-August/009760.html > http://www.gnucash.org/pipermail/gn

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
Derek Atkins wrote: David Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The way that we have made the distinction between personal and business makes this a difficult definition. On the personal side, your definition is correct. On the business side it's not. Perhaps we need two different concepts guids,

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
David Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The way that we have made the distinction between personal and > business makes this a difficult definition. On the personal side, > your definition is correct. On the business side it's not. Perhaps we need two different concepts guids, one for perso

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread David Harrison
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:59:29 -0300, Jon Lapham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, good stuff. > > I updated the web pages with the new text, plus some modifications I > made, take a look and let me know what you think. You may need to > reload the pages to clear you cache to see the changes (I h

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 29 October 2004 3:48 pm, you wrote: >> While I'm not against this, I'm concerned that it will add more code >> to gnucash that may not be used much. Perhaps it will. I don't know. >> But I'd like to make as few changes to the "gnucash xml dat

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 5:15 pm, Josh Sled wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:48, Neil Williams wrote: > > The main difference is that I would like to use the XML for data > > interchange between QOF applications and to make the format more like a > > simple bag than a tree: > > "bag vs. tree" isn

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Josh Sled
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:48, Neil Williams wrote: > The main difference is that I would like to use the XML for data interchange > between QOF applications and to make the format more like a simple bag than a > tree: "bag vs. tree" isn't really the problem, is it? What's wrong with your palm

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 3:48 pm, you wrote: > While I'm not against this, I'm concerned that it will add more code > to gnucash that may not be used much. Perhaps it will. I don't know. > But I'd like to make as few changes to the "gnucash xml data file > format" as possible. It's more of a fo

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Oaf is not a direct dependency, it's an indirect dependency. Gnucash does not use it, but GtkHtml does (and it's possible that guppi does, too). But Gnucash doesn't use it directly. Bonobo is similar -- an indirect dependency, pulled in by the rest of the gnome libraries that we use. -derek Neil

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 3:36 pm, you wrote: > I'm wondering if we should look at bonobo as the interface between > different QOF applications? This would give us both online and > offline data interchange. I just dont know how much work it would be, > as I know next to nothing about bonobo. We

Re: New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I started on this Palm->Invoice saga, the use of an XML interchange file > format was discussed. After looking at the current format, I am having to > discount the hierarchy based on AccountGroup because it cannot be easily > written by no

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I fully intend to have online communication, in both directions, it's just > that offline is easiest to create first. > :-) *nods* >> > 2. Pilot-link can query the GnuCash data file directly using QOF and a >> > similar map. >> >> Please do not assume

Re: Concepts guide - Depreciation

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Lapham
David Harrison wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:51:16 -0700, David Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let me do a rewrite and get back to you. Here is the other page on depreciation schemes David, good stuff. I updated the web pages with the new text, plus some modifications I made, take a look and

Re: Insert Customer using QIF file

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 29 October 2004 1:10 pm, you wrote: > Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Possible methods: > > 1. GnuCash can query the pilot-link data directly using an offline XML > > QofBook storage and a map. > > No chance for online communication? Every chance, given time. :-) From late

New XML file format for QOF?

2004-10-29 Thread Neil Williams
When I started on this Palm->Invoice saga, the use of an XML interchange file format was discussed. After looking at the current format, I am having to discount the hierarchy based on AccountGroup because it cannot be easily written by non-GnuCash applications - which may not have any explicit o