Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release 2013-11-04

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 4, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Robert Ratliff wrote: > On 11/4/2013 12:29 PM, John Ralls wrote: >> >> • Configure will abort if --enable-ofx is set but no libofx >> configuration files are found. Contributed by Robert Ratliff. > > The bug fix above (Configure will abort if...) was not contributed

Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release 2013-11-04

2013-11-04 Thread Robert Ratliff
On 11/4/2013 12:29 PM, John Ralls wrote: • Configure will abort if --enable-ofx is set but no libofx configuration files are found. Contributed by Robert Ratliff. The bug fix above (Configure will abort if...) was not contributed by me. • Budget periods may no longer set to values greater th

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread Graham Menhennitt
On 05/11/2013 08:58, John Ralls wrote: > On Nov 4, 2013, at 1:48 PM, David Carlson wrote: > >> Why have we not heard from anyone 'Down Under' about this issue? I >> would expect that checks would still be used in places such as Australia >> and New Zealand. Also, what about South America or Asi

Re: 2.6 roadmap

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 4, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > With 2.5.7 out of the door, I would like to look ahead at 2.6. > > I have just gone through the open bugs targeting the 2.6 milestone and > reduced the set from 21 to 14. Some of the bugs I removed were actually > bugs against register2 whic

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 4, 2013, at 1:48 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > Why have we not heard from anyone 'Down Under' about this issue? I > would expect that checks would still be used in places such as Australia > and New Zealand. Also, what about South America or Asia? > Well, the folks in New Zealand and

Re: 2.6 roadmap

2013-11-04 Thread Geert Janssens
On Monday 04 November 2013 22:34:01 Geert Janssens wrote: > With 2.5.7 out of the door, I would like to look ahead at 2.6. > > I have just gone through the open bugs targeting the 2.6 milestone and > reduced the set from 21 to 14. Some of the bugs I removed were > actually bugs against register2 w

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread David Carlson
On 11/4/2013 12:36 PM, John Ralls wrote: > On Nov 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Troesch wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, John Ralls >> wrote: >> >> >> Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to write out the amount in >> words for each language, the question is whether th

2.6 roadmap

2013-11-04 Thread Geert Janssens
With 2.5.7 out of the door, I would like to look ahead at 2.6. I have just gone through the open bugs targeting the 2.6 milestone and reduced the set from 21 to 14. Some of the bugs I removed were actually bugs against register2 which is not a feature for 2.6 any more. Some need more info befor

Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release 2013-11-04

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 4, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: > John, > > Thanks for pushing the release. It is another step closer to 2.6, with > additional bugfixes and polish. > > There are a few things in the release announcement that are not > completely accurate (any more): > > - The settings mi

Re: Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release 2013-11-04

2013-11-04 Thread Geert Janssens
John, Thanks for pushing the release. It is another step closer to 2.6, with additional bugfixes and polish. There are a few things in the release announcement that are not completely accurate (any more): - The settings migration tool will only run once as of 2.5.7. It is no longer necessary

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
On Nov 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Troesch wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, John Ralls > wrote: > > > Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to write out the amount in > words for each language, the question is whether the Wikipedia article cited > earlier in the

Announcement: GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) Release 2013-11-04

2013-11-04 Thread John Ralls
GnuCash 2.5.7 (Unstable) released The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.5.7, the eighth release in the 2.5.x series of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software which will eventually lead to the stable version 2.6.0. It runs on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris and Mac OSX. WARNING: This

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread Thomas Troesch
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > > Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to write out the amount in > words for each language, the question is whether the Wikipedia article > cited earlier in the thread is correct that checks are used only in the US, > UK, and Canada

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread Herbert Thoma
Am 04.11.2013 09:08, schrieb Martin Mainka: Am 4.11.2013 05:54, schrieb John Ralls: Actually, if the text and number disagree the bank is supposed to reject the check. Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to write out the amount in words for each language, the question is whether the

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread Geert Janssens
On Sunday 03 November 2013 20:54:46 John Ralls wrote: > On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Buddha Buck wrote: > > In the US at least it is customary to write out the amount and put > > it in digits. My checkbook in front of me has a form like: > > > > > > Pay to the order of > > _

Re: Number to Words and licencing

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Mainka
Am 4.11.2013 05:54, schrieb John Ralls: > Actually, if the text and number disagree the bank is supposed to > reject the check. Anyway, the question isn't what's the right way to > write out the amount in words for each language, the question is > whether the Wikipedia article cited earlier in the