Re: Rethinking Numeric and rounding

2014-06-03 Thread Wm Tarr
On 01/06/2014 21:07, Christian Stimming wrote: From my point of view the problem is still not yet understood completely here. IMHO the problem is not too much rounding -- the problem instead is too little rounding. What are the exact requirements on the handling of rounding and overflow from ou

Re: Rethinking Numeric

2014-06-03 Thread Wm Tarr
On 25/05/2014 15:07, John Ralls wrote: Database support? Remember, one of the requirements is that the database fields need to be summable in queries, so any database we use for the backend has to support the numeric representation. The ones on offer in the popular SQL databases are 64-bit int,

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 15/05/2014 23:16, Wm Tarr wrote: My compile with enable-python is clean but the resulting .exe doesn't work, or rather, it doesn't work for long. trace logs are like this === * 21:34:24 INFO [main] System locale returned English_United Kingdom.1252 * 21:34:24 INFO [main]

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-15 Thread Wm Tarr
On 14/05/2014 00:42, Wm Tarr wrote: [ff to self] 1. there is a conflict between gcdev\gnucash\build\config.h and Python27\include\pyconfig.h 2. More seriously (and I think recently introduced) is a duplicate variable (I didn't make a note of the error msg) between Those are

Re: Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-13 Thread Wm Tarr
On 10/05/2014 10:36, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 09 May 2014 16:51:06 Wm Tarr wrote: I'm working my way through getting python enabled with "Windows from scratch". Great ! Will you document your success ? When it happens, definitely. Made a lot of progress today, I c

Re: GnuCash at Open Help?

2014-05-09 Thread Wm Tarr
On 07/05/2014 22:56, John Ralls wrote: On May 7, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if you're the right person to talk to about user help in GnuCash (documentation, mailing lists and other forms), so I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right directio

Re: Building on Windows - status update

2014-05-09 Thread Wm Tarr
On 07/05/2014 15:36, Geert Janssens wrote: On Wednesday 07 May 2014 16:12:36 Geert Janssens wrote: Other thoughts: As things are changing fairly quickly at the moment is the presumption in bootstrap_win_dev.vbs that I've got both gnucash-on-windows.git gnucash.git a good sign that they don't ne

Building on Windows from scratch, enable-python and some install-impl.sh vs custom.sh suggestions

2014-05-09 Thread Wm Tarr
I'm working my way through getting python enabled with "Windows from scratch". Before anyone gets too excited it is early days but building on Geert's work makes a lot more sense than previous methods to me. Unless I've missed something we're going to need a way of passing --enable-python an

Re: RESULT!

2014-05-07 Thread Wm Tarr
On 06/05/2014 17:01, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it

Re: Building on Windows - status update

2014-05-07 Thread Wm Tarr
On 06/05/2014 20:51, Geert Janssens wrote: Continuing the effort to improve the build experience on Windows. the README at https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash-on-windows [1] doesn't reflect recent changes and presumes reading of this list. [1] I presume the gnucash repository is preferred over

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 28/04/2014 21:01, John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Montag, 28. April 2014, 18:56:48 schrieb Geert Janssens: For wild, not even in the oven yet, for the very long term, how about "build GC native in MSVC"? : :) Would require a copy of MSVC of cou

RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 28/04/2014 10:09, Geert Janssens wrote: Lastly, how to use my repository ? - Download the bootstrap_win_dev.vbs script. It has some documentation at the beginning. Running it is mostly a double-click. This will prepare a c:\gcdev directory with the minimal tools required to run install.sh - S

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 15:16, Geert Janssens wrote: On Tuesday 29 April 2014 16:05:31 Geert Janssens wrote: Thanks for testing. Svn shouldn't have been in there anymore. We're not using it for gnucash development anymore. The quickest way to get past this point in to remove the line add_step inst_git

Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up

2014-04-29 Thread Wm Tarr
On 29/04/2014 12:10, Geert Janssens wrote: Update: with the changes pushed today the build server should be able to create the nightly builds in the new environment. I emulated a build server locally by running daily_build.bat on my system. I downloaded bootstrap_win_dev.vbs earlier this aftern

Re: Help with help

2013-10-22 Thread Wm Tarr
On 19/10/2013 17:09, Geert Janssens wrote: On Saturday 19 October 2013 10:25:37 Geert Janssens wrote: I found a little time to play with this. Your steps seem to be ok. Afterwards I have a cygwin environment that contains xsltproc and xmllint, the two tools mentioned on the documentation develo

Help with help

2013-10-16 Thread Wm Tarr
At http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#How_to_translate_the_GnuCash_guide_and.2For_help_files it says === If you want to edit the files on /Windows/ or /MacOSX/, we don't know yet a good software tool that can process the DocBook files so that you can see the final document. Please add your

Re: Seeking documentation review

2013-10-06 Thread Wm Tarr
On 05/10/2013 17:20, Robert Ratliff wrote: As far as the budget documentation that I wrote, I focused on the stable release. Yes, there is a bit of new budget functionality in unstable, but I haven't documented these features yet. I'll have a look too I'm not able to update my patch for t

Re: Seeking documentation review

2013-10-04 Thread Wm Tarr
On 04/10/2013 18:51, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 04 October 2013 18:01:02 Wm Tarr wrote: > On 04/10/2013 15:15, John Ralls wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Wm Tarr wrote: > >> On 24/09/2013 03:32, Robert Ratliff wrote: > >>> Can someone please

Re: Seeking documentation review

2013-10-04 Thread Wm Tarr
On 04/10/2013 15:15, John Ralls wrote: On Oct 4, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Wm Tarr wrote: On 24/09/2013 03:32, Robert Ratliff wrote: Can someone please review some documentation I've written that I would like to contribute to GnuCash? I've created a bug for the change, and submitted my

Re: Seeking documentation review

2013-10-04 Thread Wm Tarr
On 24/09/2013 03:32, Robert Ratliff wrote: Can someone please review some documentation I've written that I would like to contribute to GnuCash? I've created a bug for the change, and submitted my changes as a patch. The patches are in the bug report here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c

Re: AUDIT: r23164 - gnucash/trunk/src/engine - Bug 684670 - Interest amount calculation is wrong in Sqllite3 format

2013-09-20 Thread Wm Tarr
On 17/09/2013 14:59, John Ralls wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:14 AM, Wm Tarr wrote: On 13/09/2013 15:11, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: Yet another corner where forgetting to run a edit-commit cycle when changing state breaks database save. And people wonder why I still recommend

Re: AUDIT: r23164 - gnucash/trunk/src/engine - Bug 684670 - Interest amount calculation is wrong in Sqllite3 format

2013-09-17 Thread Wm Tarr
On 13/09/2013 15:11, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: Yet another corner where forgetting to run a edit-commit cycle when changing state breaks database save. And people wonder why I still recommend against using the SQL backend for real data.. ;) -derek Would someone be kind enough

OS orientated development

2012-05-03 Thread Wm Tarr
While reading a recent thread here (the one on libgtk dependency) I wondered which OS gnc ended up on most. Looking at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash%20%28stable%29/stats/os?dates=2012-02-06%20to%202012-05-03 (i.e. 2.4.10 stable until today) it appears to be Windows. I tr

Re: Git on Windows

2012-05-02 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2012-05-01 16:59, Derek Atkins wrote: John Ralls writes: Longer term are we drifting towards git and away from svn? My reason for asking is that I am partway through a re-write of the Windows build instructions and I'm finding myself inclined towards git. Yes, that's a remarkably accurate

Re: Git on Windows

2012-04-30 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2012-04-28 18:01, John Ralls wrote: On Apr 28, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: I have just committed a couple of patches that should allow the Windows build to use a git repository as its source. I started from Christian's original work and tweaked it a bit to avoid the sed segfaul

Re: GSoC Android proposal

2012-04-06 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2012-04-06 15:49, John Ralls wrote: There's no requirement that the contribution be related to the student's proposal -- but Ngewi, if you don't know C or Scheme well enough to fix a bug, we need to figure out something else that you can do. The more folks involved in brainstorming that, the

Finance::Quote options (again)

2012-04-06 Thread Wm Tarr
Can't find an exact previous thread point to add onto as there have been many here and in gnucash-user so apols for starting a new thread about something some people may consider well done by now. perl's Finance::Quote is what it is. Getting quotes from google finance has been mentioned (can't

Re: Simple GnuCash web interface

2012-04-06 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2012-03-07 01:30, James Nylen wrote: Hi all, I migrated my financial data to GnuCash several months ago. One of the things I wanted for my financial management software of choice is a web interface. So, I have been working on creating a simple mobile-friendly web frontend for GnuCash, and I

Re: Budgets ... again

2011-09-25 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-18 15:17, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 12. September 2011 um 03:24:30 schrieb Wm Tarr: : Extracting data from an SQL backend is much cleaner and just involves one sql script. Essentially what it does is "normalise" GnuCash's sometimes obscure tables

Re: Blank report

2011-09-25 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-25 14:21, Fredrik Persson wrote: Hello! I'm can't generate any report at all. Any report I try, comes out as blank. I'm running 2.4.7 on Win 7. I just created a new file, added a few transactions and tried to create a few reports that should have some content. None whatsoever. I sear

Re: Restyled GnuCash website is online

2011-09-25 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-25 09:41, Cristian Marchi wrote: The GnuCash team is proud to announce the new appearance of the GnuCash website (http://www.gnucash.org)! The GnuCash website got updated both in appearance and content. The features page got some attention and now it better showcases what GnuCash i

Re: Adding a 'number' field to splits

2011-09-17 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-16 20:48, Alex Aycinena wrote: Currently gnucash has a 'number' field at the transaction-level so that the 'num' field displayed on the register for each split is the same as that displayed on the register for each other split of the same transaction. Thing is the number field in the t

External budgets continued

2011-09-17 Thread Wm Tarr
as so often happens when one thinks about externals one thinks again about what other people expect (I have read AlexA's split stuff) and I have some issues about that in general GnuCash terms. I also haven't sent TiagoN anything yet because I don't know if it is general enough. I think what

Re: Budgets ... again

2011-09-11 Thread Wm Tarr
On 2011-09-11 17:44, Tiago Neiva wrote: I myself have been considering some sort of extraction tool, not for budgeting but for mining the data. most of us use spreadsheets to do the graphs and to have the data closed up in gnucash is my biggest problem. I will check your project for sure, use it

Budgets ... again

2011-09-11 Thread Wm Tarr
I know GnuCash and budgeting is a perennial issue. I haven't seen what I suggest below covered before and welcome pointers if that is not the case. 1. GnuCash's current budgeting tools are dismal; they are hard to work out how to use and even when you know how to use them they don't do what