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: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:04:49AM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > Phillip J Shelton writes: > > Would also having the date functions in this library be a good thing? > > On the face of it, that's not a bad idea. However, the gnumeric > people to some extent have already had their date rep

Re: client-server

2000-12-28 Thread Eugene Tyurin
I apologize if I'm missing something - didn't start paying attention to this thread until recently.But why does the project need client-server, database, CORBA/SOAP and god knows what else? I always thought that GnuCash was a Quicken-type or, at most, a PeachTree-like

Re: user roles

2001-01-02 Thread Eugene Tyurin
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:02:24PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > David, a good start... > > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > We need to determine what level of granularity we want to provide for > > user permissions. Here is a simple set of permissions to start with. > > Tell me wh

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-15 Thread Eugene Tyurin
Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI toolkits. Is that "The Scheme" we're talking about? -- Nothing here - come back later!