RE: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 16:45:08 Phillip Shelton wrote: > I am lost. How does glib compare with glibc? > glib and glibc are two seperate libraries. Glib was originally written as part of the gtk+ toolkit, and provides a whole collection of useful routines, such as basic data structures like lists

Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Richard Braakman
I wrote something similar for the Kannel project (http://www.kannel.org, file gwlib/gwmem-check.c). You might want to look at it for ideas. It's fast enough to be used as the default memory manager for Kannel. It doesn't have "overflow" lists, though -- it figures that if Kannel allocates too ma

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:40:08PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > One thing that would really improve load times would be to defer > loading the main bodies of report code until they are needed for > the first time. I think this should be fairly straightforward. > Any guile gurus see problems ther

Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Alex Larsson
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Ben Stanley wrote: > Comments are solicited, bearing in mind that this is a debugging memory > manager proposal, not the normal one, and that I am aiming for > robustness in the face of programmer error over efficiency, That being > said, if you know of ways to achieve the same

Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Helmethead
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:03:10PM +1000, Ben Stanley wrote: > The addition of this information allows a more meaningful 'check_heap' > operation, which may actually walk the heap and check that all the > doubly linked list structure is intact, and that the magic numbers > guarding the front an

default menutip for report menu not translated

2001-06-06 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The menu tip (the sentence appearing in the status bar) for the reports can either be specified at report definition time (with the menutip argument), or a default menutip is displayes: "Display the %s report" (src/scm/report.scm:92) with %s as the report nam

another sample release notice

2001-06-06 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hm, I thought of a release notice that sounds a little bit more like an official announcement. I wrote a quick draft -- maybe, Dave, if you like it, feel free to use it in parts or as a whole. I would like to translate the final announcement to German as well

Re: Help getting postgres to work??

2001-06-06 Thread VW Fan
Update: Tried postgres 7.1.1, and that seems to work.. Mattias __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ gnucash-devel ma

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 06 Jun 2001 06:44:20 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:40:08PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > One thing that would really improve load times would be to defer > > loading the main bodies of report code until they are needed for > > the first time. I think this should be

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > I don't know about guile-1.4, but on my guile-1.3.4 system, > it takes almost 3 seconds to load src/scm/report-list.scm. > That is over half the time I wait before the splash screen > comes up! So I think you are wrong here. report

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 06 Jun 2001 15:45:15 -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > I don't know about guile-1.4, but on my guile-1.3.4 system, > > it takes almost 3 seconds to load src/scm/report-list.scm. > > That is over half the time I wait before the splas

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread GLeeJ.
> > > I'm very surprised that the loading is so slow with 1.3.4. Gnucash > > doesn't take nearly that long to load for me; and if the splash screen > > doesn't come up while stuff like that is loading, what good is it? > > Maybe we should shuffle things around to display the splash screen > > soo

Re: another sample release notice

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 06 Jun 2001 21:28:46 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hm, I thought of a release notice that sounds a little bit more like an > official announcement. I wrote a quick draft -- maybe, Dave, if you like > it, feel free to use it in parts or as a whole.

RE: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Phillip Shelton
Thank you all for your replies. You were looking at glib-1.2.9? I found a copy of 1.2.10 > -Original Message- > From: Ben Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: GLib RFC: Improve checking

RE: GLib RFC: Improve checking provided with --enable-mem-check

2001-06-06 Thread Phillip Shelton
I don't mind what gets raised on this list. In fact I enjoy reading the traffic. I just have not had a huge lot of expreince in coding for a Linux environment so was not sure of what all the names meant. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Graham Merkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent

sample announcement & press release

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
Here are drafts of an announcement (for the webpage & mailing lists mainly) and a press release (for sending to whatever news org you like). dave The GnuCash Development Team proudly announces the release of GnuCash 1.6.0. GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI

Re: migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-06 Thread Matthew Vanecek
On 04 Jun 2001 23:07:50 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > On 04 Jun 2001 22:01:53 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: > > Are there, or will there be, docs on how to migrate from 1.4 to 1.6? My > > understanding is that the file format has changed quite a bit. Beyond a > > little blurb to that effect in t

Re-saving multi-currency databases to backend fails

2001-06-06 Thread VW Fan
Not sure which is the factor (don't have time to try multiple variations, given how slow I am to actually create accounts and transactions). I'm playing around with a multi-currency setup, as described in the manual. I saved several multi-currency transactions, no problem, everything saves. Then

entryguid, transguid, etc..

2001-06-06 Thread VW Fan
Are there any specific restrictions on these fields, and they values they must take on? I know Christopher Molnar posted an MD5 formula for creating them. Does this have to be used, or could, in a single-user context, just use a non-decreasing function (such as: add 1 to the largest existing val

Re: entryguid, transguid, etc..

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 06 Jun 2001 18:51:25 -0700, VW Fan wrote: > Are there any specific restrictions on these fields, > and they values they must take on? I know Christopher > Molnar posted an MD5 formula for creating them. > > Does this have to be used, or could, in a single-user > context, just use a non-decrea

Re: entryguid, transguid, etc..

2001-06-06 Thread VW Fan
--- Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06 Jun 2001 18:51:25 -0700, VW Fan wrote: > > Are there any specific restrictions on these > fields, > > and they values they must take on? I know > Christopher > > Molnar posted an MD5 formula for creating them. > > > > Does this have to be us

More on backend bug (loading problem, I think).

2001-06-06 Thread VW Fan
Update on the saving problem I reported earlier: I think I've narrowed it down to a problem LOADING data via the postgres backend. Scenario: create a few accounts, enter a few transactions. Some of the accounts and/or transactions are NOT in USD, but in CAD. Not all, just some. Save to file. S

Re: migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-06 Thread James LewisMoss
> On 06 Jun 2001 20:12:13 -0500, Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Matthew> On 04 Jun 2001 23:07:50 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: >> On 04 Jun 2001 22:01:53 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: >> > Are there, or will there be, docs on how to migrate from 1.4 to >> > 1.6? My understanding

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Kevin Finn
Bill Gribble wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:06:05PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > I don't know about guile-1.4, but on my guile-1.3.4 system, > > it takes almost 3 seconds to load src/scm/report-list.scm. > > That is over half the time I wait before the splash screen > > comes up! So I

Non-breaking spaces in tables

2001-06-06 Thread Damian Ivereigh
I notice that in the transaction report (and presumuably others) a large table is produced. A problem occurs if a background colour is set but there is no entry in a particular cell. When the report is viewed on the screen the background of each cell is properly set, however if the result is expor

Re: migrating from 1.4 to 1.6

2001-06-06 Thread Dave Peticolas
On 06 Jun 2001 20:12:13 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: > On 04 Jun 2001 23:07:50 -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > On 04 Jun 2001 22:01:53 -0500, Matthew Vanecek wrote: > > > Are there, or will there be, docs on how to migrate from 1.4 to 1.6? My > > > understanding is that the file format has chang

Re: gnucash 1.5.98 qif import

2001-06-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:48:43PM -0500, Kevin Finn wrote: > I assume some guile loading is going on before the "development > version" warning, but is there really 13 seconds' worth? This might very well be the guppi bug we spotted last weekend. If so, gnucash is spending the time trying