Re: Please consider making a 5.10 release

2024-11-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
John Ralls writes: > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule > > You can use a flatpak nightly build (see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak#Nightly_Test_Versions_at_gnucash.org) > in the meantime, or > adjust your script call session.load() immediately after creating the session. I

Please consider making a 5.10 release

2024-11-02 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Today I went to run my various (Python) programs to import October's accounting data into my GnuCash file...only to find that the first of them had reinitialized the file and thrown away years worth of accounting data. This happens repeatably, even with SESSION_READ_ONLY set. As a way to wake up

Re: Good write up on Quickbooks -> GnuCash

2017-08-10 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 09 Aug 2017 00:16:30 +1200 Andrew Ruthven wrote: > Jon Corbet at Linux Weekly News has written a good article on how to > transition from Quickbooks to GnuCash. For folks who are LWN > subscribers, the article is here: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/729087/ > > For those that aren't, it'l

Grumpy editor's guide, part 2

2005-09-29 Thread Jonathan Corbet
FYI, I've put up the second part of the grumpy editor's guide to personal finance managers: http://lwn.net/Articles/153043/ It's still under subscription control for now. I'd like people to be able to see it, so, for the next few days, anybody on this list can go to http://lwn.

network registration error

2001-06-20 Thread Jonathan Corbet
e 14 Just thought somebody would like to know... jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

...made it die...

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
ideas? Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Debian installation

2001-06-19 Thread Jonathan Corbet
on dropped in much more nicely. Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Debian installation

2001-06-18 Thread Jonathan Corbet
at gnucash depends on libgwrapguile0 >= 0.9.1, which is not installable. Anybody know a way around this? Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumati

Re: gnucash 1.3.7 bugs.

2000-05-16 Thread Jonathan Corbet
ically correct terminology. My two cents... jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Register change in 1.3.7

2000-05-09 Thread Jonathan Corbet
umbered items at one end or the other) like "that other program" did, reconciliation would be quite a bit quicker. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Register change in 1.3.7

2000-05-08 Thread Jonathan Corbet
of your todo list. On the other hand, if I could get a "sort order" option on the reconcile window so that I could make it match the ordering on my bank statements, I would be just overjoyed...:) jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Register change in 1.3.7

2000-05-08 Thread Jonathan Corbet
almost every entry I make. Is there a reason why that was done? jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get a core dump from gnucash

2000-05-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
> I cannot reproduce this using the code out of CVS. What version > of GnuCash are you using? 1.3.5, installed straight out of the RPM file from the FTP site. Hmm...just now checked and saw 1.3.6 is there...guess I'll give that one a try... jon Jonathan Corbet Executive edit

How to get a core dump from gnucash

2000-05-01 Thread Jonathan Corbet
...just follow this simple recipe: - Create a new bank account - Open up the register - Select the "opening balance" line - Go to "edit" and select "cut" - Watch your windows go away. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash De

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak (progress)

2000-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
ure out how themes really work. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak (progress)

2000-04-28 Thread Jonathan Corbet
buttons and get on with life. Time to start griping about the lack of scheduled transactions...:) jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
ted with their sheet code in building > the register. Gnumeric 0.46 shows similar behavior when you pass the pointer over a button or actually enter data in a cell. It does not, however, cause the X server to grow. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
; What's your "version profile" for XFree86, gtk, gnucash, etc? XFree86 3.3.6 gtk+1.2.6 gnucash 1.3.5 gnome-libs 1.0.54 jon [Sorry to be slow responding, it's LWN publication day...] Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

1.3.5 X memory leak

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
ge, and it certainly thrashes up a bunch of memory, but it also should not bloat the X server. I wonder if there's something funky with the malloc implementation being used in the server? Other applications, anyway, do not cause this behavior. ...at a loss... jon Jonathan Corbet Executive

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
o try to watch the conversation with the server and see if anything obvious jumps out at me. Don't know what my chances of success are. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-25 Thread Jonathan Corbet
plementations that actually return memory to the system. All the above notwithstanding, an X server or Xlib bug is a possibility here. However, most of those sorts of bugs got shaken out of X ten years or more ago. A problem in gnucash (or in the GTK libraries) seems much more likely to me. jo

Re: 1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
now, do tell and I'll go digging for it. jon Jonathan Corbet Executive editor, LWN.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

1.3.5 X memory leak?

2000-04-24 Thread Jonathan Corbet
nt. Allowed to run long enough, it can reach a point where the system runs out of memory altogether, not a pleasant thing. I would guess that somebody, somewhere isn't deallocating widgets properly in the transaction entry process. But it's just a guess. jon Jonathan Corbet Executi