Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins writes: > > > I suppose I see the QIF importer (and a future OFX importer, but I'm > > not as interested in doing that work right now) as more than just a > > means to convert from using Quicken to using GnuCash. I'd like to use > > it t

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Stanley Long
- one Anchorage vote to keep QIF importer discussions on list :-) Dave Peticolas wrote: > > Derek Atkins writes: > > Should we take this to private mail and stop deluging the list? > > ... I'm finding the discussion very > informative. This is a devel list after all, so I think it's

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
Rob Browning, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 16:20:05 Clinton Popetz wrote: > | One key advantage of doing it in SWIG is that SWIG can spew out Python > | interfaces as well, and I hear there are people who actually like > | programming in Python. :) > >Pyth

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:35:51PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Make sure that you are entering the proper default account name for > > > each file. "moneymarket" is different from "MoneyMarket", and to > > > match the transactions the account names

Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, I'm trying to debug some scheme code, but I don't know guile very well. I've got a backtrace to the problematical code, but I'd like to get into that environment so that I can examine various symbols and see their values. I can't seem to find any useful guile documentation, in particular in

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I did find the most recent info pages, which I grabbed from CVS.. > But they still are useless. Wow. I hadn't actually looked at them on that topic. Pretty "sparse", no doubt... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D6

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay. I'll look for this. If we're going to have to update a major > portion of the Perl API, we might want to just use XS. This would free > us from the dependency on swig. I have a lot more experience with XS as > well. :) Hmm. How

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread D-Man
On Wed, 01 Nov 2000 16:20:05 Clinton Popetz wrote: | One key advantage of doing it in SWIG is that SWIG can spew out Python | interfaces as well, and I hear there are people who actually like | programming in Python. :) | Python is much nicer than perl anyways. ;-) I like it a whole lo

Re: QIF Import scrollbar auto-scrolls to top!

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:56:34PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > I'm trying to import a QIF file and I have to hand-massage all the > categories. There are lots of them, so I have to scroll down to > change them all. That's not a big deal. Unfortunately, every time I > change a category on an it

Re: Patching gnucash to take advantage of g-wrap 0.9.8

2000-11-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > > Obviously, autoconf isn't seeing g-wrap.m4, but when autogen.sh is > > called from CVS gnucash, it's not a problem. Any idea what's going on? > > I think it's because autogen.sh first runs aclocal, which would > collect the definition of AC_GWRAP_CHECK_GUILE int

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Clinton Popetz
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:34:00PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay. I'll look for this. If we're going to have to update a major > > portion of the Perl API, we might want to just use XS. This would free > > us from the dependency

Patching gnucash to take advantage of g-wrap 0.9.8

2000-11-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave, the new version of g-wrap (0.9.8) contains a couple of autoconf macros in a a file g-wrap.m4, which gets installed into {prefix}/share/aclocal. On my machines that's /usr/local/share/aclocal, but just to check I've created a symlink to /usr/share/aclocal, and it doesn't seem to matt

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This example raises some questions about non-leaf accounts. > > Right now, every node in the hierarchy is one account. With > multiple views, it seems we would have to relax that restriction, > or eliminate non-leaf accounts. > > To use the example a

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, I did find the most recent info pages, which I grabbed from CVS.. > > But they still are useless. > > Wow. I hadn't actually looked at them on that topic. Pretty > "sparse", no doubt... To say the l

Re: Can people with older RedHat systems test g-wrap-0.9.7?

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob, the new file I added (g-wrap.m4) is not present in the > tarball. I think I probably forgot to add something to Makefile.am :( > > Additionally, the fix won't solve gnucash's problems until somebody > patches gnucash's configure.in and acc

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:35:51PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Make sure that you are entering the proper default account name for > > each file. "moneymarket" is different from "MoneyMarket", and to > > match the transactions the account names must be identical. > > In the dialog I match the

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Rob Browning writes: > Clinton Popetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But it has to have some underlying structure somewhere, right? By > > that I mean someplace to store the list of accounts contained within > > it, and possibly a pointer to its parent account. So then it looks > > like a "c

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Clinton Popetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But it has to have some underlying structure somewhere, right? By > that I mean someplace to store the list of accounts contained within > it, and possibly a pointer to its parent account. So then it looks > like a "container account." I guess it's

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Rob Browning writes: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Having more than one nickname could get pretty confusing, especially > > if you always use the same nickname and expect the 'others' to > > change when you change any one of them. > > Well, the problem is that in the way I w

Re: Patching gnucash to take advantage of g-wrap 0.9.8

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > Dave, > the new version of g-wrap (0.9.8) contains a couple of autoconf > macros in a a file g-wrap.m4, which gets installed into > {prefix}/share/aclocal. On my machines that's > /usr/local/share/aclocal, but just to check I've created a symlink > to /usr/s

commodity import druid

2000-11-01 Thread Herbert Thoma
Hi! I have one suggestion to improve the commodity import druid: If I enter a new commodity type, I would like to see that type in the combo-box list in the subsequent druid pages. OK, this druid should be needed only once but it could save some typing ... Herbert. -- Herbert Thoma FhG-IIS A

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Clinton Popetz
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 05:00:35PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To use the example above, Where are the 'Insitution', > > 'Institution:MegaBank' and 'Institution:Fidelity' accounts? > > > > Does 'Liabilities:CreditCards' include both 'MegaBank' an

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:56:53PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Um, I think this may be a bug, and it certainly explains why things > > are failing for me. The QIF names do NOT match across all my QIF > > files, because they all came from different so

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Rob Browning writes: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This example raises some questions about non-leaf accounts. > > > > Right now, every node in the hierarchy is one account. With > > multiple views, it seems we would have to relax that restriction, > > or eliminate non-leaf

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:40:59PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > Make sure you have gnucash with two accounts (call them "Checking" and > "Money Market"). To show the bug, import the two QIF files below. > [...] > As you can see, the date, amount, source, and destinations all match. > This seems l

Re: QIF imports from NetBank and Vanguard using GnuCash 1.4.7

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
Sorry about the delay in responding to this. I've been out of town for a couple of weeks. On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:10:59PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > I've got accounts with Vanguard and NetBank, both of whom support QIF > downloads of account information. None of my downloaded QIF files > l

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Derek Atkins writes: > > b.g. > > So, how can I help? > > Should we take this to private mail and stop deluging the list? I, for one, am enjoying the discussion :) I've never really looked at the qif importer in detail, so I'm finding the discussion very informative. This is a devel list after

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Derek Atkins writes: > I suppose I see the QIF importer (and a future OFX importer, but I'm > not as interested in doing that work right now) as more than just a > means to convert from using Quicken to using GnuCash. I'd like to use > it to be able to continuously download information from my o

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins writes: > > > b.g. > > > > So, how can I help? > > > > Should we take this to private mail and stop deluging the list? > > I, for one, am enjoying the discussion :) I've never really looked at > the qif importer in detail, so I'm findin

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:56:53PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Um, I think this may be a bug, and it certainly explains why things > are failing for me. The QIF names do NOT match across all my QIF > files, because they all came from different sources. It's not a bug, but it is a sign of incom

Can people with older RedHat systems test g-wrap-0.9.7?

2000-11-01 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > > It's now in ftp.gnucash.org:/pub/g-wrap/source, and it may fix the > problem with guile-1.3. > > Thanks > -- > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 > Rob, the new file I added (g-wrap.m4) is not present in the tarball. I thin

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Rob Browning writes: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So we would have a 'long' name and a 'nickname'? > > Sure, though in my original incarnation, I was thinking of an > potentially limitless number of nicknames depending on the view that > the account was in. In fact the nam

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to debug some scheme code, but I don't know guile > very well. I've got a backtrace to the problematical code, > but I'd like to get into that environment so that I can examine > various symbols and see their values. I can't seem to find > a

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Dave Peticolas
Rob Browning writes: > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To say the least... > > > > I can certainly use the "debug-via-printf" debugging method, > > but I would definitely prefer to have step, trace, and frame > > level access to debug. > > > > I'd certainly appreciate any input a

Re: QIF importer dies

2000-11-01 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 06:12:34PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > I tried to import two QIF files (with the same transactions but from > different accounts, one account per file). I got through the whole > process and then Gnucash died with this error: > > /var/tmp/gnucash/share/gnucash/scm/qif-im

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having more than one nickname could get pretty confusing, especially > if you always use the same nickname and expect the 'others' to > change when you change any one of them. Well, the problem is that in the way I was envisioning it (with multiple vi

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Ok, I did find the most recent info pages, which I grabbed from CVS.. But they still are useless. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL N1

Re: QIF importer in 1.4.7 fails to detect duplicate transactions

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:40:59PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Make sure you have gnucash with two accounts (call them "Checking" and > > "Money Market"). To show the bug, import the two QIF files below. > > [...] > > As you can see, the date, amount

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a debugger, but to tell you the truth, I've never used it. I > usually just cram in some display statements and try again :> :< I know, I could do that. But I hate debugging that way; it's much slower than examining information. > Check the

Can people with older RedHat systems test g-wrap-0.9.7?

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
It's now in ftp.gnucash.org:/pub/g-wrap/source, and it may fix the problem with guile-1.3. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-b

Re: Guile hacking -- accessing backtrace environment frames?

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To say the least... > > I can certainly use the "debug-via-printf" debugging method, > but I would definitely prefer to have step, trace, and frame > level access to debug. > > I'd certainly appreciate any input anyone has for me? OK, without me actua

Re: Perl API

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect that having easy bindings for Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, and > Ruby pretty much says that we'll use SWIG. If SWIG does a good job, then yes, but if it's not going to provide a good solution, then I'd rather just see each interested gr

Re: Implementing proper cost basis tracking for shares

2000-11-01 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To use the example above, Where are the 'Insitution', > 'Institution:MegaBank' and 'Institution:Fidelity' accounts? > > Does 'Liabilities:CreditCards' include both 'MegaBank' and 'Fidelity'? I realized I didn't actually address your specific examples