Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Whoops, never mind, I see now I hit send too fast. Pandoc is mentioned in another related thread. On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: > Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: > http://pandoc.org/ > > It's open source. I'd assumed some

Re: Using LaTex for Documentation

2015-09-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, I'd recommend Pandoc as a universal converter: http://pandoc.org/ It's open source. I'd assumed someone would have mentioned it by now, but no one did, so here we are :-) Best, Yawar On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 07:07:13 John

Re: I need some guidance

2015-03-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, just a quick note that the project I pointed you to is not meant to be installed, I simply wanted you to look at the source code and 'crib' off it when writing your own. Good luck. Regards, Yawar P.S. it's considered good etiquette to subscribe directly to the mailing list by follo

Re: Scheduled Transaction formula support string literal parameters.

2015-02-28 Thread Yawar Amin
uot; wrote: > Hi Yawar, > > Am 27.02.2015 um 19:37 schrieb Yawar Amin: >> Hello, it may be helpful for you to look at >> http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin >> >> I tried to use that page to list all GnuCash Scheme API that I knew about. >> Feel f

Re: Scheduled Transaction formula support string literal parameters.

2015-02-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hello, it may be helpful for you to look at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin I tried to use that page to list all GnuCash Scheme API that I knew about. Feel free to edit it if you want. Hope this helps. Yawar On 2015-02-26, at 22:09, YaoCL wrote: > Hi > > I am creating a SX whic

Re: I need some guidance

2015-02-24 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2015-02-24, at 9:06, David Christopher wrote: > [...] > > When you write code is Scheme script, are you literally building the > Options, what I call a form, literally? I have been looking at the Hello > world .scm file while in a tutorial. I understand I can change the text in >

Your offer to help (was: Re: gnucash-devel Digest, Vol 131, Issue 21)

2014-02-24 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Elise, On 2014-02-23 12:38, Elise Scher wrote: > I would like to help with the project on a part-time basis. > I know a bit of C, having written some small programs in C. > My English is very good. I grew up in Massachusetts and live near Stanford > University. > I would like to learn and help,

Re: gnucash bugfix: Multiple changes pushed

2014-02-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2014-02-21, at 12:29, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] >> >> You can get git to help you here by setting push.default to "nothing", >> which will require you to say what branch you want to push. AFAICT >> none of the other options will stop you from accidentally pushing a >> private bran

Re: gnucash master: Test git.

2014-02-03 Thread Yawar Amin
Congrats everyone on switching to git. On 2014-02-03, at 15:12, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2014 14:56:19 Cristian Marchi wrote: >> Updated via https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/1a6b0b74 >> (commit) from https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/04bc248c >> (commi

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-24 10:40, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > Actually it's prepending $GNC_DOT_DIR, which defaults to $HOME/.gnucash. It > does that because that's where it expects custom reports to be, and it does > it on all platforms. Thanks John. I've simplified the report loading instructions a bit in

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-24 11:33, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > No, '(x) == (list "x") ... in all versions of Scheme, not just guile. Thanks Derek. I just did this: guile> (define x 1) guile> '(x) (x) guile> (list x) (1) So that's the difference I guess Regards, Yawar signature.asc Description: Op

Re: New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-23 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2014-01-23 13:50, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > This is an invalid menu path. You are telling it, literally, > "gnc:menuname-utility", which isn't a valid menu path name. Try > changing it to: > > 'menu-path (list gnc:menuname-utility) Thanks Derek. I could've sworn that '(x) == (list x). B

New Scheme report - trying to load from home dir

2014-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, I'm following the instructions at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Custom_Reports#Load_the_report_from_a_user_account and trying to prototype a new Scheme report. However I don't see it anywhere on the Reports menu. There are no indicators as to what happened, why it failed to show up. I have

Re: Git repository mail notifications

2013-05-28 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-05-28, at 12:22, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > > mythtv branch devel/logging updated by danielk. v0.27-pre2-1194-gce1462b > packaging branch master updated by nigel. v0.26-33-ge758033 > mythtv branch master updated by paulh. v0.27-pre2-1124-ge48d898 > > The first symbol is the r

Re: Development primer?

2013-05-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-05-11, at 5:28, "Christian Stimming (mobil)" wrote: > Dear Allen, I'm sorry to hear the program does not start. The error during > make check is caused because you don't have the French locale installed. We > discussed this here already 3-4 weeks ago. Can someone post the link to

Re: Make check failure in backend/dbi/test

2013-05-25 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-05-03 07:59, Geert Janssens wrote: > With current trunk (being r22938), I run into this make check failure: > > make[5]: Entering directory > `/kobaltnet/janssege/Development/Builds/gnucash-f18- > [...] > I first thought it was due to some local staged patches, but even on a cle

Re: Git based releases

2013-05-20 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-05-20, at 11:37, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > > This presumes we have a "trusted PGP Key" that we can use... Currently > we do not. Yeah, this is a stumbling block. Have any of us signed anyone else's keys at all? If not maybe we should keep an eye out for opportunities to do so. >

Re: Git based releases

2013-05-19 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-05-19, at 11:54, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > > Yours would generate an unsigned annotated tag. In the git-tag man page I > found we could > also generate signed tags using -s or -u. > > I don't know the (dis)advantages of both methods and which one we should use > then. Signed i

Re: Git wiki page

2013-05-18 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2013-05-17 14:23, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > Hopefully this will help some to understand git branches better and why they > are totally > different from svn branches (where each branch is a commit in itself, not a > floating label to > attach to some commit). This was a great e

Re: Writing Data from MS Access to GnuCash

2013-02-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Alan, On 2013-02-04 05:18, Asset Finance Corporation wrote: > [...] > I have written some applications in MS Access but would like to link them > into an accounting package. Either directly or in the form of batch updates. > Is this possible? Where could I find documentation/advice about where

Re: GnuCash for Android banner in homepage

2013-02-02 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Cristian, On 2013-02-02 08:07, Cristian Marchi wrote: > [...] >> 1. Move it to directly underneath the main GnuCash download banner. > I firstly thought the same but I think is better to have the features of the > main GnuCash version listed just below its description and download links to >

Re: How to handle multiple long-term branches (was Re: Notification mails for git repos)

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 14:40, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > This breaks down when B and C affect the same code that D does. Obviously you > resolve those conflicts in favor of the development branch when you merge D. > No problem, right? Well, you have to resolve them again for every subsequ

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 12:26, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > If you create a new git branch from trunk and don't make any changes > (remember, backports are the only allowed changes on a release branch), then > of course it will merge cleanly: It won't have any changes, so the merge will > b

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-31 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-31, at 11:15, John Ralls wrote: >> [...] > I think that you guys have a misunderstanding about how merging works. Try > merging 2.4 back into trunk. > When I did just now, 4 files merged successfully, the rest have conflicts. > One might be able to do better by playing with

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-01-30 22:44, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > 2.4 was branched off of 2.3, not trunk. And it was done 4 years and 4500 > changes ago. If the bit of code that you're working on happens not to have > changed in those 4 years (there's plenty that hasn't) it makes no difference > whether you

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-30 23:06, Yawar Amin wrote: > [...] > See my response to Mike Evans on bisect. Oops, I mean Mike Alexander. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-30 22:37, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > is fundamentally flawed. The new change can *not* be cleanly merged into any > branch if the code that it affects has been changed since the commit that > introduced the bug. It's no different from any other cherry-pick. Yes, that is a g

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Mike, On 2013-01-30, at 16:49, Mike Alexander wrote: > [...] > The article says to use bisect to find the first revision that introduced the > bug, but with a project as big as GnuCash, where some bugs have been around > for years, that would be painful. Actually, you don't need to use bis

Re: Notification mails for git repos

2013-01-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-30, at 11:13, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > Alternatively I played with the idea to just drop the whole BP trickery. Right idea > Instead we could use a backport branch in git. Each dev that commits > something to trunk/master that should also be backported, could c

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hello, On 2013-01-15 19:03, Yawar Amin wrote: > [...] > > What I did like was John's idea of having a prominent `Need Help?' > section right on the front page, `above the fold' as they say in web > design speak. I guess that would put it above the News section. T

Re: GnuCash for Android banner in homepage

2013-01-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Cristian, On 2013-01-26 08:20, Cristian Marchi wrote: > I've just committed a patch to show a banner dedicated to the GnuCash > for android app in the beta website [1]. (Better later than never...) > Let me know if this can be enough to promote the app. Proof reading > and suggestions for the d

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-23 10:21, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > > The next step will be to get gitolite to push to github, but we don't > want to set that up until everyone is ready to reset github. I'm ready if everyone else is (git format-patch and am worked smoothly). If anyone's curious: $ cd $OLD_REPO_DI

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-24 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-23 10:21, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > > Once that happens we'll get svn -> gitolite -> github automatically on > every commit (modulo the up-to-60s delay in the svn -> gitolite > transfer). Then, down the road, once we turn off svn we'll still have > the gitolite -> github auto-push i

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-22 12:25, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > > Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your private history to > convert ? The only significant work I have is my fork on GitHub (yawaramin/gnucash-docs). Other than that, a few throwaway learning experiments > Regarding svn,

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-22, at 10:04, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > What steps would your recommend to reattach private branches ? With my > (limited) git knowledge I would only know how to export (git format-patch) > from the old repo and import (git am) in the new clone. Is there a more > di

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-22 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-22, at 9:51, John Ralls wrote: > On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:30 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >>> [...] >> >> Maybe.. Here's the bigger issue, if I found issues/bugs in John's >> svn->git conversion, what do we do? (and yes, I found a problem in the >> conversion) >> >> [...] >>

Re: Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

2013-01-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2013-01-21, at 9:11, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hey all, > > Geert and I were working over the weekend to try to set up an svn->git > mirror on code. Alas, I seem to have an issue that I don't know how to > fix. I don't know gitolite, but wouldn't it work if you simply copied (not cl

Re: Backport policy regarding new strings ?

2013-01-20 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Christian, On 2013-01-20 14:55, Christian Stimming wrote: > [...] > It's up to you (or anyone who wants to commit). We don't have any agreement > on > this right now. > > However, I would suggest not to add a new string in the 2.4.x branch. Most > probably, there will be no translator activi

Re: Backport policy regarding new strings ?

2013-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2013-01-19 04:12, Geert Janssens wrote: > Yawar has got a patch ready to commit to both trunk and 2.4 that adds > a new tip of the day entry. > > Somewhere I seem to have picked up that no new translatable strings > should be introduced in the stable branch unless strictly necessary. > > Is

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-15 16:23, Colin Law wrote: > On 15 January 2013 21:17, Christian Stimming wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013, 20:36:22 schrieb Derek Atkins: >>> [...] >>> I agree. Please do not call it a "forum". >> No, I think Yawar has a valid point here. The term "mailing list" to a n

Re: Bug 691762: behaviour of Find dialog box's `Reconcile' criteria buttons

2013-01-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2013-01-15, at 10:33, Derek Atkins wrote: > I added a comment to the Bz. > > In short, it's a single Predicate, so you need to group it as: > > Reconcile { is | is not } { N, C, Y, ... } > Thank you. That clarifies it. I'll write up the behavior and add it to the manual. Rega

Bug 691762: behaviour of Find dialog box's `Reconcile' criteria buttons

2013-01-14 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, Re: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691762 Can someone clarify the behaviour of the Find Transaction dialog box when various combinations of buttons are clicked in the `Reconcile' criteria? I've created a bug to collect the discussion so please comment there. I'll write up th

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2013-01-14 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2012-08-13 05:57, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] >> >> [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git-bz >> > Git-bz does look useful to me. People that want to submit patches > without having commit access can install this locally. At first sight > it doesn't seem to create new bugs if the patc

Re: [Bug 638955] "Close Books" needs documentation

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-13 20:35, Derek Atkins wrote: > [...] > That's too bad... > > I'll need your new key, and please don't lose it this time... ;-) Sending shortly, and not to worry, I'm backing up this time :-) Thanks signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature _

Re: [PATCH] Free memory in the gnc_gnome_help function

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-13 18:05, John Ralls wrote: > [...] > Fixed a bit differently (r22698). Thanks. > > Regards, > John Ralls Much more succinct. I like it. Thanks, Yawar signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnucash-devel maili

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Geert, On 2013-01-13 14:07, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > Backporting follows these general criteria: > - only bugfixes are backported, not enhancements. > - and then only if the backport is fairly trivial. Complex fixes will > not be backported because the risk on new bugs in the fixes is too h

[PATCH] Free memory in the gnc_gnome_help function

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, Came across this when I was trying to figure out how to test the documentation. See patch for details. Thanks, Yawar From 1adf4e8959f50fc1469b72a261ad04d844a8cad9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yawar Amin Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:09:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnc_gnome_help: Free

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-13, at 10:28, Geert Janssens wrote: > Regarding your comment in 7.3: it is indeed not possible to use the > XDG_DATA_DIRS method to load a different set of documentation for the > system-installed gnucash. This is because the 2.4 series uses a different > mechanism to loc

Re: [gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
John, On 2013-01-12, at 18:16, John Ralls wrote: > That's not really a simplification. Worse, I think that if you call it that > then people will think that they're web forums, and we have enough trouble > with nabble users who don't understand that they're using a web interface to > a mailin

[gnucash-htdocs] Change GnuCash website `Mailing Lists' link name

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
will change that by simplifying the `mailing lists' term to `public discussion forums'. Thoughts? Yawar From fb8a9918488d52e334add631ecdf16b795d10f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yawar Amin Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:47:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Rename `Mailing Lists' to `Publ

Re: [Bug 638955] "Close Books" needs documentation

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2013-01-12 16:16, John Ralls wrote: > Yawar, > > I'll commit the code if someone else doesn't beat me to it. You can commit > the documentation change yourself. > > Regards, > John Ralls This is a little embarrassing but I lost the private SSH key that I used for SVN access when I sw

Re: [Bug 638955] "Close Books" needs documentation

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-10 13:09, GnuCash (bugzilla.gnome.org) wrote: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638955 > GnuCash | Documentation | 2.4.0 > [...] > --- Comment #8 from Frank H. Ellenberger 2011-01-10 > 18:09:26 UTC --- > [...] > > Because I can not find something like "close books" in

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi folks, On 2013-01-12 13:44, Yawar Amin wrote: > [...] > Excellent! That's exactly what I needed. Am writing this up in the wiki > (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions) now. Wiki update done. Let me know if any mistakes/changes needed. http://wiki.gn

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-12 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2013-01-12 06:44, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > Now to be able to load the locally installed docs from within gnucash, > you can run > XDG_DATA_DIRS="/home/geert/gnucash-docs/share/:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/" > /home/geert/gnucash/bin/gnucash > > [...] Excellent! That's exactly

Re: Testing docs in development version

2013-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2013-01-11 20:25, Yawar Amin wrote: > Hi Geert, > > In http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/22378 you said that there would > be a way to test the help documentation on Linux when building and > testing from source--can you point me to how to do that? I.e. how to > solve t

Testing docs in development version

2013-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, In http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/22378 you said that there would be a way to test the help documentation on Linux when building and testing from source--can you point me to how to do that? I.e. how to solve the problem of Yelp not finding gnucash-help and gnucash-guide when I've

Can someone remove my email address from the GnuCash docs (help/concepts guide)?

2012-11-14 Thread Yawar Amin
I'm pretty sure it's confusing people into thinking that I personally provide GnuCash support. Maybe just replace my name and email address with the gnucash-user list address. I don't have the time right now to set up the whole toolchain and do it myself Thanks Yawar signature.asc Descri

Re: Reminder: [MAINT] GnuCash Service Outage Sat, Aug 25 1000-1800 US/EDT

2012-08-25 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2012-08-25 11:17, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hi, > > This is going to be starting any minute. All services (except > www.gnucash.org) will be down while this process is ongoing. > I'll send another email when it's complete. > > -derek Thanks Derek and good luck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Non-commiter github workflow

2012-08-21 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2012-08-21, at 13:56, John Ralls wrote: >>> Accounting software isn't a domain where fast-and-loose development is a >>> good idea. >> >> Neither is an OS kernel ;-) > > Yup, and Torvalds doesn't accept pull requests via Github either [1]. Granted, I wouldn't want to use pull requests ei

Re: Non-commiter github workflow

2012-08-21 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2012-08-21, at 12:41, John Ralls wrote: > I'm not sure that we want to encourage people to publish their forks on > Github, or anywhere else. I don't see the harm, as long as the website makes clear that Gnucash/gnucash is the main repo. > Accounting software isn't a domain where

Re: Git Migration: where to host the master repository

2012-08-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2012-08-13, at 13:55, Derek Atkins wrote: > If nothing else it would > reduce my bandwitdh consumption significantly ;) Yes, I was thinking about this too :-) > I just still feel that the master repo should be on code, and that the > committers should be able to push there. Then

Re: Git Migration: where to host the master repository

2012-08-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Folks, On 2012-08-13, at 9:31, Derek Atkins wrote: > We're still maintaining our server for email, wiki, build, docs, irc > logs, etc. So we're already doing system maintenance, and moving to > github doesn't really reduce the amount of configuration necessary. We > would just need to add the

Re: GSOC coding begins

2012-05-20 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Ngewi, On 2012-05-20 16:05, Ngewi Fet wrote: > Hi everyone, > The coding period for Google Summer of Code begins tomorrow. > (In case you forgot, I am working on the Gnucash Mobile Android app :-) > > The repository is hosted on GitHub: > https://github.com/codinguser/GnucashMobile > > In addit

Re: GNUCash Android Application - GSoC

2012-03-16 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Atul, Are you subscribing to the gnucash-devel mailing list through the email interface or Nabble? We would highly recommend email over Nabble or other third-party sites because as you can see, there may be some abusive people from time to time who were actually banned from our mailing lists

Re: GNU Cash Documentation

2012-02-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2012-02-26, at 22:27, Jason Massey wrote: > Hello! > > Just wanted to say, your GNUCash documentation looks wonderful. You're > obviously using DocBook, but tell me, what toolchain do you use to convert to > PDF? > > Very handsomely done! > > Jason > Forwarding to the GnuCash d

Re: Help manual edit

2012-02-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2012-02-26, at 12:38, David Carlson wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a windows 7 computer and have yet to set up an equivalent to > xmllint. > > This time I will attach my edited xml file and ask for someone to > validate my changes. There are only a few minor edits and I really > expe

Re: Need help with documentation edits

2012-02-25 Thread Yawar Amin
David, On 2012-02-24, at 19:52, David Carlson wrote: > […] > > in a command window in Windows 7 I succeeded in checking out > […] > > Do I need to install xmllint separately from subversion? If so, how do > I do that? Sorry, just noticed you’re on Windows. My advice is skip trying to use xmll

Re: Need help with documentation edits

2012-02-25 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi David, On 2012-02-24, at 19:52, David Carlson wrote: > […] > > Do I need to install xmllint separately from subversion? If so, how do > I do that? Yes, xmllint is a separate command-line tool which has the job of checking XML files for correctness. As noted in the wiki page, xmllint is par

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Delete post

2012-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi all, On 2012-01-19, at 18:33, Donald Allen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: > I think by tonight I'm going to add a nice, big disclaimer at the top of > the Mailing Lists page (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists) saying > that we can'

Re: R: Re: R: Re: Delete post

2012-01-19 Thread Yawar Amin
I think by tonight I'm going to add a nice, big disclaimer at the top of the Mailing Lists page (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists) saying that we can't delete or manipulate people's messages. I know it won't stop trolls from being abusive, but we can just point them to the disclaimer and

Re: Scripting documentation

2011-11-30 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > [...] > > So far I haven't found the rather extensive user documentation I'm used > to seeing as a longtime gnucash user. Is it in the source tree too? Or > somewhere else. Do I have to use a different make target to gennerate

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2011-11-15, at 20:43, Derek Atkins wrote: >> […] > > My preference would be to move it out of Yawar's user page onto a real > page and then we could link from there. Or better yet, let's get the > changes into the sources themselves so we could use sometihng like > doxygen to gener

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-11-15 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > [...] > One of the hallmarks of Scheme is its metaprogrammability, for > applications just like this. And its simple syntax promotes this. > I've started writing a proof-of-concept declarative report ( https://github.com/yawaram

Re: Scripting

2011-11-13 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Hendrik, I think the wiki is the best place to start. For example I've been compiling a Scheme API reference on my user page: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/User:Yawaramin You can also easily create a dedicated page once you sign up for a wiki account there. Btw, the Scheme bindings do more

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, run: git push origin :master This pushes an empty branch name (the part before the colon) from your local repo to the master branch of the origin repo, effectively deleting it. Regards, Yawar Geert Janssens wrote: >On vrijdag 11 november 2011, Yawar Amin wrote: >>

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Geert, On 2011-11-11, at 11:47, Geert Janssens wrote: >> […] > Is there a way to create a branch via the github interface ? Or do I have to > create one on my local repo and push it ? I didn't seem to find a feature on > the website, but perhaps I missed it. I'm not very comfortable yet with

Re: r21533 - gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C - Bug #651886

2011-11-11 Thread Yawar Amin
OK, On 2011-11-09, at 09:00, Derek Atkins wrote: >> […] > > Looks good. :) Committed and bug resolved. Cheers PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnu

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-09 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: > [...] > > > Same for me - I was able to "svn checkout" one of my other normal git > repos, > but with gnucash I, too, got "502 Bad Gateway". However, it came up with a > "trunk" and "branches" directory, so that I had to append "trun

Re: r21533 - gnucash-docs/trunk/help/C - Bug #651886

2011-11-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek and David, On 2011-11-08, at 18:40, David T. wrote: > […] > > > The Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable account > > types are used by the business features. Additions or modifications > to these accounts should only be made using &app;'s business features. > > Users should no

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-07 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Christian Stimming wrote: > Zitat von Derek Atkins : > >> [...] >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> The windows automatic build scripts >>> still depend on svn and won't work with git. >>> >> >> Right now the web site update, docs nightly build script, doxygen nightly

Re: Git Migration: github with svn access

2011-11-07 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-11-07, at 04:54, Christian Stimming wrote: >> […] > > My suggestion is to move the main git repo also to a github one, and not > maintaining our own source code server. My reasons for this is an easier > administration of adding main commit access, and also a much easier handing > ove

Re: r21516 Commit message

2011-11-05 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Mike, On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Mike Evans wrote: > The commit message should be: > > Bug #457401 - Print invoice should not be disabled for unposted invoices > Enable printing of unposted invoices. > > I'm using git and forgot the change to change the commit message. > Apologies. > You

Re: Auto-Complete Search Method

2011-11-05 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-11-04, at 22:41, GreenLED wrote: > […] > In short, when you search using auto-complete, completely IGNORE > place-holder accounts. In this way, you can reach your desired account MUCH > faster, and much more effectively. I think until you get leaf-node search for accounts, you might

Re: Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

2011-08-27 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-08-27, at 14:47, Florian Haas wrote: > […] > Is there any other hidden clever shortcut which will > also work if you select a partial account number? So is there any way to > type, say, 42 and some magic key, and then get a dropdown with all > account numbers *starting* with 42? No,

Re: Feature suggestion: display account numbers in register and account selection popup

2011-08-26 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Florian, On 2011-08-24, at 08:32, Florian Haas wrote: > […] > Now, while GnuCash does allow for accounts to be assigned a number, > those numbers are not available to actually be selected in the > register when making an entry. That complicates matters for users > using a numbered accounting s

Re: Reporting system - declarative

2011-07-09 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2011-07-08, at 23:33, John Ralls wrote: >> […] > > Fun. Two questions: Can that be easily converted into a string parser so that > normal users aren't put off by the extra parentheses, I guess we could replace all the parens with more HTML-reminiscent characters like << and >>, so

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-07-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Folks, On 2011-07-08, at 01:15, Yawar Amin wrote: > […] > I like the idea of XML -> HTML + CSS + JavaScript plots. How about moving to > a completely declarative XML report, where we use XML tags to ask for things > like account names and balances, and using the Scheme (o

Re: Reporting system and potentially Python

2011-07-07 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-07-07, at 21:48, Tim M wrote: > […] > Thoughts? I like the idea of XML -> HTML + CSS + JavaScript plots. How about moving to a completely declarative XML report, where we use XML tags to ask for things like account names and balances, and using the Scheme (or Python) reporting engine

Re: Bounty for a bugfix: Have register window Filter-By settings be saved and restored

2011-06-28 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Christian, On 2011-06-28, at 03:09, Christian Stimming wrote: > Am Dienstag, 28. Juni 2011 schrieb Tim M: >> […] > > […] > >> Then again, I don't know what other options are out there. > > I collected the options here: http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bounty_Program > The next one to try would

Re: Wiki page `FAQ' spammed

2011-04-19 Thread Yawar Amin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Christian, On 2011-04-19, at 02:27, Christian Stimming wrote: > Zitat von Yawar Amin : > >> Can someone revert the latest change?[1] I?m getting a timeout error trying >> to undo ?Seojobs11?s helpful contribution of repl

Wiki page `FAQ' spammed

2011-04-18 Thread Yawar Amin
Can someone revert the latest change?[1] I’m getting a timeout error trying to undo ‘Seojobs11’s helpful contribution of replacing all the FAQs with SEO tips. Regards, Yawar [1] http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ&action=history PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed me

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-11 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, Trying to understand your suggestion. Questions below: On 2011-01-08, at 17:16, John Ralls wrote: > […] > > Maybe instead you could create a fake-master branch off of master in your > git-svn repo and tie fake-master to github's master. You mean: [git-svn master] git checkout -b fak

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-08 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-07, at 23:56, John Ralls wrote: >> […] > > I've moved you into the "owners" group. Do what you will. Thanks. I’ve pushed a new gnucash repository, as well as a gnucash-docs repository. > I've attached the authors file I made. If you reimport from svn it will match > up svn acc

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-07 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi, On 2011-01-07, at 16:41, John Ralls wrote: > […] > > Meanwhile, I see that Yawar has pushed his own git svn import onto the Github > repo and also pushed a commit in a new, rather weirdly-named branch. Yawar, > since you have the svn data that goes with that import, you've bought keeping

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi Derek, On 2011-01-03, at 11:53, Derek Atkins wrote: >> […] > > Apparently there are also issues with importing branches and tags > appropriately, as per John's other email. There is an issue in that git-svn imports branches and tags as remote refs (roughly, pointers to the head of a branch)

Re: Public Git repo: Status update

2011-01-04 Thread Yawar Amin
Hi John, On 2011-01-04, at 15:11, John Ralls wrote: > […] > > In trying to find out, I read to the bottom of the git-svn man page, where I > found a section called "Caveats". The first paragraph says: >> For the sake of simplicity and interoperating with a less-capable system >> (SVN), it is r

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
by giving the importer a map file like the following: yawaramin = Yawar Amin … bobsmith = Bob Smith … I can prepare a map file. But before I do that, let me just ask: would we mind not having the full names and email addresses of historical committers in the Git history? We know who the contribut

Re: Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
On 2011-01-02, at 19:41, John Ralls wrote: >> […] >> >> On another note, now that 2.4.0 is out, how do we feel about setting up an >> official Git repo, say git.gnucash.org? Or even an official GnuCash repo on >> GitHub/Gitorious/something else. > > Not that I know of, but I'm willing to make

Public Git repo

2011-01-02 Thread Yawar Amin
Does anyone have a public, maintained Git repo of the entire GnuCash source tree? I’m trying to set up an Ubuntu 10.10 build so I can tweak some stuff and try it out. I’d prefer not using git-svn to gulp down the entire svn history from the svn.gnucash.org server. On another note, now that 2.4.

Re: [Bug 638227] New: Concept Guide §7 .2: New Account Hierarchy menu command path a nd new file creation

2010-12-29 Thread Yawar Amin
Derek, On 2010-12-29, at 09:21, Derek Atkins wrote: >> […] >> >> On a related note, what is the difference between New File and New Account >> Hierarchy in practice? It seems to me they accomplish the same thing. > > The difference is whether or not you start with a new (empty) file. The > la

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