Re: WARN [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes. The identifiers might not be very random.

2011-03-08 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von John Ralls : Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux? Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I see is that the guids generated by libuuid and UuidCreate have a slightly different format than what we use now. So we'd still have to wrap these li

Re: WARN [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes. The identifiers might not be very random.

2011-03-08 Thread Derek Atkins
Christian Stimming writes: > Zitat von John Ralls : Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux? >>> >>> Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I see >>> is that the >>> guids generated by libuuid and UuidCreate have a slightly different format >>> than wha

Re: WARN [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes. The identifiers might not be very random.

2011-03-08 Thread Geert Janssens
On dinsdag 8 maart 2011, Derek Atkins wrote: > Christian Stimming writes: > > Zitat von John Ralls : > Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux? > >>> > >>> Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I see > >>> is that the > >>> guids generated by libuuid a

Re: WARN [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes. The identifiers might not be very random.

2011-03-08 Thread John Ralls
On Mar 8, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: > On dinsdag 8 maart 2011, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Christian Stimming writes: >>> Zitat von John Ralls : >> Can the qof guid library be replaced by libuuid on linux? > > Those seem good proposals to me. The only (smallish) problem I s

Re: Using libuuid for guid generation (was: WARN [guid_init()] only got xxxx bytes)

2011-03-08 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Dienstag, 8. März 2011 schrieb John Ralls: > >> My proposal would be to keep the code as-is (if it aint > >> broke, dont fix it) on all platforms except Windows -- where it truly is > >> broken. On Windows, sure, change it to the Win32 API, but why rip out > >> working code elsewhere? (Especia

Re: Proposal: Branch 2.4-stable and trunk now

2011-03-08 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Montag, 7. März 2011 schrieb Derek Atkins: > >> I propose to branch a 2.4-stable branch now, so that we can introduce > >> several pending changes on trunk without risking to loose the stable > >> code state we have in 2.4.3. > >> > > > > No comments, just a +1 from me. > > I'm fine with it.

Re: GSoC organization application opened; I'd like to apply for GnuCash

2011-03-08 Thread Christian Stimming
Thanks for all the feedback concerning the GSoC application. I've updated the wiki page accordingly, http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GSoC2011 Apparently, we have four excellent potential mentors available: Geert Janssens, John Ralls, Manfred Usselmann, and myself. Thanks a lot in advance to any of

Git repo ready!

2011-03-08 Thread John Ralls
Third time is the charm, I guess. The Git code repo is up and ready to be cloned. I've rewritten completely http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Git with instructions for using it. I'll do the htdocs repo later this week. I hope it won't take very long to mirror. Yawar, you haven't been synching the

Re: GSoC organization application opened; I'd like to apply for GnuCash

2011-03-08 Thread Mitch Murphy
Christian, yes. i'm available to mentor a student in mac os x (cocoa) programming in which i have 15+ years of experience, since before mac os x was owned by apple in fact. for geek history buffs, remember NeXT... i was already planning on starting a fresh mac os x interface for gnucash (called G