Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-29 Thread Dave Peticolas
Greg Stark writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) I have finished the XML text file format, but it's not completely > > tested. I should have a patch to Dave within a couple of days. > > Does this mean we're any closer to supporting OFX imports? A tiny bit :) > H

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-28 Thread Greg Stark
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) I have finished the XML text file format, but it's not completely > tested. I should have a patch to Dave within a couple of days. Does this mean we're any closer to supporting OFX imports? Having the XML parser means it's "just" a matter o

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-09 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Very seriously, if you want to propose using a storage scheme that > is _not_ readily embedded, you'd better have some _seriously good_ > ideas as to how to cope with implementing some sort of "DBA Druid" > to walk naive users through the installat

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:14:13PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > > [Aside: A _VERY COOL_ idea would be to set up a "virtual package" > for Debian that might be called "gnucash-devel" that would consist > of dependancies on all the libraries you need to have installed in > order to get GnuCa

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread Derek Atkins
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Aside: A _VERY COOL_ idea would be to set up a "virtual package" > for Debian that might be called "gnucash-devel" that would consist > of dependancies on all the libraries you need to have installed in > order to get GnuCash to compile. That ma

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Hmmm... Perhaps we need a "cutoff" feature while keeping all the information in normal files. Cutoff feature would automatically roll into one all the transactions before certain date. This way the file size is cut down, and all the balances would be correct. -- ET. ___

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:36:11 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Gary Bickford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Folks who are used to watching Access grind away for hours can be > surprised by the performance of a real, tuned ISAM database. > > I can't see anyone having an accounting system large

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Clark Jones
Gary Bickford wrote: [...] > The following may seem cranky, but it isn't. :O) OK, so I trust you won't mind me going into "psuedo-curmudgeon" mode! :-) [...] > So please take this as an attempt to be > constructive :O) Likewise, I'm sure! :-) > To my > knowledge, _all_ enterprise level acc

Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Gary Bickford writes: > Folks, > I have a fair amount of experience working with databases of all kinds > now. My latest installation of SuSE 6.4 auto-installed MySQL and Webmin > to administer it and a bunch of other stuff. > > The following may seem cranky, but it isn't. :O) I just have

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Gary Bickford
That was quick!! :O) OK, you caught me. I estimated, based on the fact that the local grocery store now sells 500 MHz PCs for under $500 with rebate. However the MySQL data is based on a single processor 350 MHz PII (three years old). Folks who are used to watching Access grind away for hours

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Terry
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Folks, > I have a fair amount of experience working with databases of all kinds > now. My latest installation of SuSE 6.4 auto-installed MySQL and Webmin > to administer it and a bunch of other stuff. .. .. .. > > As for performance, nowadays a majority of users

Revisiting the database

2000-09-29 Thread Gary Bickford
Folks, I have a fair amount of experience working with databases of all kinds now. My latest installation of SuSE 6.4 auto-installed MySQL and Webmin to administer it and a bunch of other stuff. The following may seem cranky, but it isn't. :O) I just have a strong feeling that the database idea