Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-04 Thread Conrad Canterford
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 17:00 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Finally, when designing the schema you should keep in mind that we probably > want an audit table so we can look back at who changed what (and maybe even > when). For audit purposes, the "when" is vital. Conrad. __

Re: Gnucash doesn't work with external QOF (was: Re: GC, QOF and queries)

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Daniel Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks for point this. > > Then the documentation isn't equal, . Then the only is read the > code and study how it works? Ok! :-) The QOF documentation at http://cvs.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD is accurate. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT

Re: Gnucash doesn't work with external QOF (was: Re: GC, QOF and queries)

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/3, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, 3. November 2006 21:40 schrieb Daniel Espinosa: > > 2006/11/3, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) Convert QOF to use GObject natively instead of being GObject-like > > > 2) Using the same QOF APIs, try to use GDA natively insi

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/3, Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 17:00 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > I think, Phil, that you should use Daniel as a resource to better > > understand GDA. Daniel, I think you should provide your GDA knowledge > > to Phil who seems to better understand the is

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 17:00 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > I think, Phil, that you should use Daniel as a resource to better > understand GDA. Daniel, I think you should provide your GDA knowledge > to Phil who seems to better understand the issue at hand. I leave it > to you two to figure out how

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 14:40 -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote: >> I know some about GObject architecture, I plan to use this to >> understand QOF, that's the easy part, and plan to implement most of >> the Interface to create the backend privider independie

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 14:40 -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > I know some about GObject architecture, I plan to use this to > understand QOF, that's the easy part, and plan to implement most of > the Interface to create the backend privider independient as far as I > could, focus on SQLite for the fi

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Josh Sled
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 12:26 -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > I see you don't want to help any one that doesn't have a previous > knowlege about QOF, even if he/she have some knowlege about GObject > architecture; I know that may you haven't time enough but I haven't > time to learn QOF, I prefer to

Gnucash doesn't work with external QOF (was: Re: GC, QOF and queries)

2006-11-03 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 3. November 2006 21:40 schrieb Daniel Espinosa: > 2006/11/3, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 1) Convert QOF to use GObject natively instead of being GObject-like > > 2) Using the same QOF APIs, try to use GDA natively inside QOF > > 3) Consider moving more information into QOF. >

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/3, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Daniel Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I'm trying to question in the best way, with out injury to any, the GC > > architecture and try to HELP to have a better one. > > The steps towards a better architecture are: > > 1) Convert QOF to use

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Chris Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The fact that FC5-extras has 1.9.100 is irrelavant. That's an > unstable release. It's not even forward API-compatible with newer > unstable releases. It also has some pretty serious bugs. Ahh, so it is. I thought it was in core, not extras. Als

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Fri, 2006-03-11 at 13:58 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > But as you can see from other email, I'm open to listen. Chris convinced me > that we should look forward to GDA-2 (through 1.99) instead of keeping > with 1.9 I have seen Chris's e-mail proposing we use GDA-2 (1.99) instead of 1.2, but ha

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Daniel Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to question in the best way, with out injury to any, the GC > architecture and try to HELP to have a better one. The steps towards a better architecture are: 1) Convert QOF to use GObject natively instead of being GObject-like 2) Using th

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/3, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Daniel Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2006/11/2, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > >> > -> SQL translato

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Daniel Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2006/11/2, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery >> > -> SQL translator. I assume no one else has such a beast (there is a >> >

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/2, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > > -> SQL translator. I assume no one else has such a beast (there is a > > SQL -> QofQuery translator as part of QOF. When we

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Daniel Espinosa
2006/11/3, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What version of LibGDA do you need to get GdaQuery? Is libgda-1.9.100 > >> recent enough? Or do you need something more recent than that? (I ask > >> because 1.9.100 is what FC5 has). > > > > I don't

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:09:47AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> What version of LibGDA do you need to get GdaQuery? Is libgda-1.9.100 > >> recent enough? Or do you need something more recent than that? (I ask > >> because 1.9.100 is what FC5 has

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-03 Thread Derek Atkins
Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What version of LibGDA do you need to get GdaQuery? Is libgda-1.9.100 >> recent enough? Or do you need something more recent than that? (I ask >> because 1.9.100 is what FC5 has). > > I don't know. On the www.gnome-db.org web site, the 1.9.102.chan

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 22:04 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: > >> > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting w

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:13:37PM -0500, David Hampton wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 21:27 -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > > > Anyway, try to avoid writing the SQL emitter, if you can. > > > > I don't really want to gut the core of

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread David Hampton
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 21:27 -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > Anyway, try to avoid writing the SQL emitter, if you can. > > I don't really want to gut the core of GC and rebuild it around Gda. I've been thinking of gutting the core of GC

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: >> > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery >> > -> SQL translator. >> >> Have you looked at j

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > > -> SQL translator. > > Have you looked at just directly using the GdaQuery objects? You can

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Phil Longstaff wrote: > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > -> SQL translator. Have you looked at just directly using the GdaQuery objects? You can constuct an abstract query out of GdaQueryFieldFields, GdaQueryFiel

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK. I'll see if there is anything I can borrow from it. I doubt there is, except as a prototype.. >> > Secondly, I looked at the begin/commit edit behaviour when an account >> > was being created. There was a *lot* of begin/commit activity on the >

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Thu, 2006-02-11 at 16:14 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > > -> SQL translator. I assume no one else has such a beast (there is a > > SQL -> QofQuery translator as part of QOF

Re: GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Phil Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery > -> SQL translator. I assume no one else has such a beast (there is a > SQL -> QofQuery translator as part of QOF. When we get an SQL backend, > it won't make sense to translate

GC, QOF and queries

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Longstaff
I have started working on a gda backend and am starting with a QofQuery -> SQL translator. I assume no one else has such a beast (there is a SQL -> QofQuery translator as part of QOF. When we get an SQL backend, it won't make sense to translate SQL -> QofQuery -> SQL). I have also looked at the