new release bugs

2000-02-28 Thread Rob Walker
Just in case people were thinking that all of us UI freaks were just making up requests for to keep busy, I guess this release has popped out a few more bugs for you to squash, eh? have fun, rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pay bills

2000-02-29 Thread Rob Walker
run up debt -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

heretical question

2000-02-29 Thread Rob Walker
would it be heretical to ask for pros and cons to only having a gnome version? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-06 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:06:15 -0800, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> CVS has been updated. this has got to be a record for you dave. do you have a date tonight or something? :-) I am doing the works on it now. "cvs updat

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-06 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:27:19 -0800 (PST), Rob Walker >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> "cvs update && ./configure --prefix=/home/rob/compiled && make && make install && clear && ./gnucash ~/data/secondt

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-08 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:38:08 +0100, Herbert Thoma >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Herbert> Rob Walker wrote: >> Does this mean that I think the register window should only shrink >> and not grow according to resizing the columns? I

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-08 Thread Rob Walker
careen back to the big size again. Herbert> That's a point for you, rob. I think what I really want is an Herbert> easy way (one click) to show the full width of a register. I yes, I hadn't thought of that. Herbert> just don't like this "click on the window border a

Re: cvs 2000-03-06

2000-03-07 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:43:43 -0500 (EST), Heath Martin >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Heath> Rob Walker writes: >> here is a test for you all to try out. >> >> open up a register which will need to have the columns resized. move

Re: CVS

2000-03-02 Thread Rob Walker
inas> BTW, you should also see a big bandwidth improvement. I saw a big bandwidth improvement. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Check printing

2000-03-02 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would be naturally implemented as a further "reporting" > extension. Is there a LaTeX package out there yet that'll do checks? Has anyone seen one? If so, then it'd be easy to spit out the right LaTeX code

Re: heretical question

2000-03-02 Thread Rob Browning
ary > and you can install it without installing any other part of gnome, > easily (it's setup that way). It's already there for any gnome > setup, too. I'd probably be okay with that. I haven't investigated in depth, but last time I looked it seemed useful, no lon

Re: .qif import still not working for me

2000-03-02 Thread Rob Browning
ll have *much* better results using his code once it's available. Plus, you'd make a good guinea pig :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

reports autoloading breaks ability to run from build dir

2000-03-02 Thread Rob Browning
re general discussion of the build vs run-time stuff which definitely could be simplified if we don't care about maintaining as much flexibility as we have now. In any case, unless the concensus is that we don't care about running from the build dir, I'll see if I can fix the current

Re: SWIG

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Browning
process to have a --with-perl-module option that will optionally try to build the SWIG stuff. Either that, or maybe the perl stuff could be broken out as a separate package... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 I may have lost some mail recently,

Re: Troubles with today's CVS

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gnucash: [D] "Running functions on hook "main-window-opened-hook > > ERROR: Bad define placement > > This may be related to the problem that Rob B. found with running > out of the build directory and auto-loadin

latest cvs

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Walker
I did cvs update make distclean ./configure --prefix=/home/rob/compiled/ make gnome make install ./gnucash ~/data/secondtry.xzc and got the following error: gnucash: [D] "loading system configuration" gnucash: [D] "loading user configuration" gnucash: [D] "Running f

Re: Troubles with today's CVS

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Walker
Herbert, How do you get those extra debug messages? Do you get dropped into a scheme shell to do the backtrace? Rob >>>>> On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 23:50:12 +0100, Herbert Thoma >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Herbert> Dave Peticolas wrote: >> >

Re: cvs

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:22:05 -0800, Dave Peticolas >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Dave> CVS has been updated. Dave> New Stuff: Dave> + Rob Browning's patch. This should fix the CVS problems people Dave> were having today. works now

Re: Tracking income from stock trades

2000-03-05 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:20:26 +, Gerald Champagne >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Gerald> Any thoughts? when you figure it out, please put an example of how to do it in the documentation. thanks, rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Check printing

2000-03-09 Thread Rob Browning
display for the checks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 I may have lost some mail recently, please remind me if I overlook something. -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SRFI 19: Date Functions

2000-03-13 Thread Rob Browning
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd think this would make a worthwhile addition; I'll be dropping a > draft of it into the srfi subdirectory, and will see what I can > do about (seconds->date)... Great idea. I hadn't even noticed that that wa

Re: Memorized Transactions

2000-03-13 Thread Rob Browning
ming that happens, we'll probably post a proposal for comments, and since getting this right in the "full blown" case is quite hard, we'll want to have an incremental development plan that'll get us something useful quickly and something really good eventually.

Re: compile probs

2000-03-13 Thread Rob Browning
eys, and though I still think it's very awkward in places, and has a too-steep learning curve, it is an *excellent* tool. Just don't press any keys until you know *exactly* what they do :> FWIW) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Find feature

2000-03-16 Thread Rob Browning
l, it would be nice to just have a function like this: Split* gnc_find_transactions(AccountGroup *g, gncBool (*test)(Split *s, void *data), void *data); or similar. Then use that to generate the split list and pass it to a "

Re: Reorg of SCM stuff, Pt I

2000-03-16 Thread Rob Browning
tart using the standard. I wonder how hard it would be to create a SRFI->guile-record wrapper... Also, presuming there aren't nasty performance implications, Dave did a pretty laudable job of convincing me that his SICP-style objects were a "good idea(TM)". -- Rob Browning <[

Re: Re-parenting accounts with different types

2000-03-16 Thread Rob Browning
The parser to read this data back in and rebuild and account group hasn't been written yet, but it's really straightforward. I just haven't had the time yet. It is on my TODO list. I might get to it in the next week. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 5

Re: Find feature

2000-03-16 Thread Rob Browning
h header in glibc. That's fine too, though I'm a lot more comfortable with perl regular expressions. I suppose it wouldn't be hard to make this an optional feature if we decide it's worthwhile. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 --

Reworking configure: don't use @@ vars in non-makefiles.

2000-03-19 Thread Rob Browning
use we wanted to be able to allow you to configure with one --prefix and install "make prefix=foo install" with another. This is important for packaging systems. However, I'm changing us to use the X DESTDIR trick which simplifies the process. The only user visible c

Re: Reworking configure: don't use @@ vars in non-makefiles.

2000-03-19 Thread Rob Browning
eal with than what I just suggested. If make was the way I'd like it to be, the solution would be straightforward. As it is it's taking a little head-scratching, but I think I've just about got it... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 --

Re: Adding Palm support

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Browning
ooked at this last, most of the docs I needed came directly from the pilot development site (though I don't recall the location). Those docs described the database records for each app so that you knew what to do with the data that you get via pilot-link. > Probably, if we do this in C

Re: Adding Palm support

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 21 Mar 2000 11:21:50 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: Rob> (which I'm still not sure I'm going to use a lot). Frankly, if I Rob> could get it tightly integrated with things like BBDB, then I'd Rob>

Re: HELP! i18n and check printing

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Browning
hen you hand the rest off to the normal table based mechanism you already have. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about how other languages handle numbers to know if this is sufficient, but even if it coveres some subset of the languages well, then that might be a good way to handle that ch

Re: More on Palm reading

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Browning
namic libs right now, and keeping the pilot libs outside the main app which *might* make things more stable. If the helper crashes, no big deal. It would also make it easy for people to write up other little guile scripts to hack around with their pilot's data. Just a thought... --

Re: Adding Palm support

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > have you seen the recent discussions about this on the bbdb list? Nope. I'll go check it out. I only look at the bbdb list once in a while. Last time I popped up, mentioned lispme being GPLed, and didn't stick around to see what hap

Re: num cell

2000-03-22 Thread Rob Walker
I thought about it, asked for it, started to do it, and got nowhere. thank you for doing it. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QIF import (fwd)

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Presumably, I could simplify things by renaimg the files in the shell > before importing them. I presume you handle filenames with spaces and > other weirdness in them correctly? We should. If we don't, it's a bug. -- Rob B

Re: i18n and check printing and Europe (fwd), Re: i18n and check printing and Europe (fwd)

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
enty-Five Pounds Only"; > yet "One Hundred Pounds Exactly". Bear in mind here that we don't need to be able to parse all of the possible valid constructions in a given language, we just need to be able to output *one* valid construction for each language, which is a

Re: another report bug

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
acro that expands to a "let loop" or other simple recursion.) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QIF import *and* save/load trouble

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
opening transaction. I had this happen several times back then. FWIW -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configure script problems

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
ht development packages installed, but I don't know enough about rpm systems to comment further. You might also check config.log to see why it's failing. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pilot synchronization

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Browning
ngs like jpilot and gnome-pilot are going to fight with us for control of the data... FWIW -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
top-level.d.tmp make[4]: *** No rule to make target `glade-qif-import.h', needed by `obj/gnome/window-main.o'. Stop. make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/src/cvs/gnucash/src/gnome' make[3]: *** [gnome] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/src/cvs/gnucash/src

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
fill it with (largest number + 1) as soon >> as someone hits enter to record a previous transaction? Dave> If you use the Num field more often than not then it would. But Dave> for most accounts I would imagine that's not the case. yeah, you are right, I was thinking about a ch

Re: cvs 2000-03-24

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Walker
ith (largest number + 1) as soon as someone hits enter to record a previous transaction? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Browning
build process isn't being very smart about its dependencies. This probably wouldn't be hard to fix. 3) Some other hybrid approach. Any of these approaches is pretty trivial to implement. Thoughts? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Browning
(Dave, if you're not familiar with moving things around in CVS, I can help with that. There are two main approaches, and which one you pick depends on what you want to preserve.) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-27 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I vote for 1) with an extra make target to have g-wrap rebuilt. How about just having it documented that you need to say "rm -r lib/g-wrap-install", or do you think we should also have the special target? -- Rob Browning <

Re: Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
and there is less danger of making a > bad mistake. That's the one I tend to prefer too, but it does have the disadvantage that you lose all the log info/history that predates the move. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
d-process.txt doc/guile-hackers.txt etc. (with or without the .txt extensions...) -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pilot synchronization

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
e your updates smarter, and there's no real place for that data in the QIF file. I think the palm, if you're talking to it directly over the sync connection, also has some features during the conversation to minimize the amount of data that you have to transfer in order to be up to

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 28 Mar 2000 00:48:50 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: rlb> 1) Have it so that g-wrap is only configured/built once after a rlb> make clean. This means that if you monkey with g-wrap or do rlb> anything else that would

Re: Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 28 Mar 2000 10:16:45 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: Rob> Oh, and if we do this move, do we want to keep the "README." Rob> prefix on everything? i.e. do we want: Rob> doc/README.build-process Rob> doc/R

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How long does it take g-wrap to be built? Actually, it's not really how long it takes to build. It's more how long it takes it to run a make -q -C g-wrap || rm -rf g-wrap-install test -e g-wrap-install || make -C g-wrap tes

Re: How do we want to handle g-wrap builds?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 28 Mar 2000 10:36:54 -0600, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: >> I like this one better, it saves developers from doing tech support. >> Q: "Why is my something doing something I don't understand?" >> A:

Unique IDs

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
ar" -> "Z1149-220a" "gnc:bank-id-BankBaz" -> "2208-2311-11295" Given the hash tables suggested above, we could consider handling the "unique ids" as just another reserved hash entry: "gnc:uid" -> "87zorjk2st/t/3" -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Could we do a little housecleaning?

2000-03-28 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >README.* -> doc/ And drop the leading README. on the files? > If everyone agrees, I will make this change later in the week. Looks good. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash

Re: impressions of a new user

2000-03-29 Thread Rob Browning
t "this isn't > something we want for gnucash." OK. "this isn't somethine we want for gnucash."... Er, um wait, scratch that, make it "Thanks for the really helpful comments; keep 'em coming." -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash.gnome build fails with -lxml

2000-03-29 Thread Rob Browning
Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect that the problem is that while I have the Debian libxml1 > package installed, I don't have the Debian libxml-dev package > installed. I'm going to install that now, and see if that fixes the > problem. Yep,

Re: impressions of a new user

2000-03-29 Thread Rob Walker
se we could >> limit it to the last N descriptions if we added this feature. Christopher> This *will* be unworkable if there are thousands of Christopher> transactions; it should nonetheless be useful enough to Christopher> have that "register" that looks to the nearest five

Re: quicken migration

2000-03-30 Thread Rob Browning
ction. Maybe you'd have a "real balance", used for reconciliation, that ignores savings goal transfers, and then the "normal balance" that gnucash shows you by default that includes the savings goal transfers. This would probably require a new account type and some ugly, and

Re: another bug

2000-03-30 Thread Rob Browning
ing the previous load-path > manipulation) Hmm. I'm not sure your hack is "quite right" for the long term. In any case, I also just noticed that there are some other funny business going on with the documentation search path. I'll look into both in a minute. -- Rob

Re: another bug

2000-03-30 Thread Rob Browning
kes the load-paths shorter - a load path of ./scm would work again. Unless people object, I'll go ahead and fix the top level script and back out the main.scm patch, and over time, I'll fix up the load/depend calls to scope their arguments (i.e. "printing/foo.scm"). -- Rob

Note: anyone putting @FOO@ variables in .in files.

2000-03-30 Thread Rob Browning
n-makefile wouldn't expand have to be recursively_expanded() in configure.in. Thanks. Night. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: budgets Was: quicken migration

2000-03-31 Thread Rob Browning
Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P.S. Maybe some thing this perverse, but I enjoy the practice we seem > to have of quoting the entire discussion in each message. It's certainly not a practice all of us have (or like). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: T-shirts

2000-03-31 Thread Rob Walker
er> I'd tend to think that a "limited run" GnuCash T-shirt Christopher> could indeed sell out. Christopher> I'll not be in Chicago, but could always use another Christopher> T-shirt (XL). XL here, let me know how much $$$ it is. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: current build weirdies.

2000-04-01 Thread Rob Browning
we could use top_srcdir, but we'd need to set it in lib/Makefile.in): g-wrap.configure: (cd g-wrap && \ ./configure --prefix=${ABSOLUTE_TOP_SRCDIR}/lib/g-wrap-install) touch g-wrap.configure DIST_TRASH += g-wrap.configure -- Rob Browning <[E

Re: wtf? scheme weirdness

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
ike to see if this is a bug in floor or somewhere else. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ignore last message.

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
Bryan Larsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry. I was RTFM'ing, but I didn't get quite far enough before I > gave up. OK, ignore my previous response, then too :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Develo

Re: Eperl/swig

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
ithout-swig) to simplify the installation? I want to fix it so that it doesn't need swig if it's not detected. Maybe I'll get to that this week. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: budgets Was: quicken migration

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
y. But that's probably not a problem for > gnucash to solve. You might already know about this, and it might not be what you want, but threaded mail readers (like Gnus, mutt, etc) help tremendously. I can't imagine dealing with the volume of mail I get without Gnus. FWIW --

Re: How should I proceed on budgets?

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
the budget". If I get a couple of hours in the next day or so, which I probably will, I'll have a good answer for you... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do you handle mutual fund purchases and roundoff?

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
dled? Do I enter them as an adjustment? If so, from what type of account? Thanks. PS: Once I understand this, I'll be happy to add a section to the docs. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash compilation error

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
the build code. autoconf just really doesn't quite do what you want sometimes. In any case, this is a good example of why you should probably *never* be building development code as root. Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 53

Re: How do you handle mutual fund purchases and roundoff?

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
m the institution; they at least seemed somewhat interested in fixing the reports if they need "fixing". I suspect though, that there may be some "standard" here that I just don't know about. It's also possible that I'm just overlooking something obvious.

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:07:40 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> Anyone have a better idea on how to have backup-paranoia linas> without cluttering up the directory too much? text (XML?) data files and RCS directories, with ,v files therein.. rob -- Gnucash

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
cementing that idea into the "brilliant idea hall of fame". C-h v auto-save-directory RET (note the other wonderful directories at the bottom, for efs-stuff). oh, how I long for the day when I can use efs over ssh to "edit" my gnucash data files in an emacs major mode, wit

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
able is the number of seconds after which an auto-save will happen when the current buffer is 50k or less; the timeout will be 2 1/4 times this in a 200k buffer, 3 3/4 times this in a 1000k buffer, and 4 1/2 times this in a 2000k buffer. See also the variable `auto-save-interval', which con

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
a text-based data format. Agreed completely. However, I think that Larry McVoy is on to something when he mentions the lack of data integrity being built into RCS via checksums or some other method. rob -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:37:41 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: linas> It's been rumoured that Rob Walker said: >> >> Christopher> d) Store *text* backups, checked in to RCS :-). >> Christopher> Option d) [RCS] is a *prime* reason why I

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Walker
linas> %d is 25 to 30 bytes linas> Thus, my uncompressed data file would be 185*25/4= 1MB which is linas> a bit fat. compression is needed. 1MB is kinda big? /home/rob/mail $ ls -al INBOX -rw--- 1 rob rob 68721246 Apr 3 22:32 INBOX $ and VM is happy editing that f

Re: so many files

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
inas would be too happy with that -- perhaps rightly so. Though I think the same objection would apply to an xml library, and unlike xml, we already have guile available. In any case, with a text file and compression, the data file size would probably be smaller, at least on disk, than what we

Re: How do you handle mutual fund purchases and roundoff?

2000-04-03 Thread Rob Browning
ense, since it's the one that fluctuates daily anyway. The one I *know* you can't play with is the total transaction value. That one is the one that gets deducted from the corresponding "clearing account", and you can see that happen. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Configure in lastest CVS

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Browning
o easily nest executions, non balancing quotes are why we have a lot of the backslash headaches that we do. Oh well... Dave, could you change that $() to a `` for me? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: so many files

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
le for Nov 2000 1 file for Dec 2000 1 file for 2000 Paul> * Users might think that the `extra' files are backups and Paul> delete them. This would be very bad. Yes, this could get interesting. Any fixes? Can we make them read only, hoping that people will stop and think a bit? rob -

Re: so many files

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
" is what was being talked about here. Actually, I think that it would be possible to do either one of these things independently of the other. rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Too much Paranoia about RCS?

2000-04-04 Thread Rob Walker
ion. http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk23.html I don't say that bitkeeper is what we should use, I just say that Larry knows more than I do about this stuff. rob -- "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were

menus and data structures.

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Walker
I am afraid that I know the answer to this already, but I saw the following text on an xemacs mailing list today, and I thought that it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in gnucash. rob This is what I set up for s/o that had printed a 10M buffer by mistake. I don't know if

Re: reports

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Browning
- it's a really nice model. I think my only remaining concern with that approach was performance, and if that's not an issue, then it's not an issue :> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menus and data structures.

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am afraid that I know the answer to this already, but I saw the > following text on an xemacs mailing list today, and I thought that > it would be nice to be able to do the same thing in gnucash. I was just thinking about this today. H

Re: QIF Import Trouble

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Browning
l the relevant info that the user would have given via the GUI? If so, then we can use that during "make test", but I don't know if it would be too much trouble to be worth adding right now. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: menus and data structures.

2000-04-06 Thread Rob Walker
>>>>> On 06 Apr 2000 20:31:43 -0500, Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: Rob> I was just thinking about this today. Having the menus be more Rob> configurable (i.e. all generated from scheme) is on Dave and my Rob> list, but it&#

Re: budget gui

2000-04-07 Thread Rob Browning
please don't make it so that normal people can checkout CVS and use thos method, or if you do, put a big warning dialog in. I don't want to have to accomodate migrating these files in a week when I get finished with the new storage method. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: reports

2000-04-07 Thread Rob Browning
is in the context of perhaps even moving to a text format file similar to the export format I already wrote. If we're using b/gzip, then size might not be an issue, at least not for the files once they're written, but we'll still have to consider carefully Linas' correct concer

Re: reports

2000-04-07 Thread Rob Browning
hat I really think that doing the more elegant/maintainable/extensible thing should always be preferred, *unless* performance is an issue, and I agree there here there's no reason to suspect it would be. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Change to Report Representation...

2000-04-07 Thread Rob Browning
Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an aside (it's not relevant for this particular application), how > efficient are records? I don't really know in Guile. About the only think I know about records is that they finally have an SRFI to standardize them... --

Re: Change to Report Representation...

2000-04-08 Thread Rob Browning
and if the SRFI's can pick up some steam, they might be able to provide most of the things I like about CL. We'll see. I do agree that *not* paying attention to how CL got it right, or wrong in any given case is probably unwise. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: map-in-order

2000-04-08 Thread Rob Browning
ll see if I can fix it today. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: subaccounts

2000-04-09 Thread Rob Walker
hn> the parent account and listing all the transactions in the John> subaccounts as if the lines had simply been copied from the John> subaccounts, complete with balance. Interesting. I haven't seen this behavior, but am running an older version of gnucash. Do you like the way this

Re: cvs 2000-04-09

2000-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
? Does our code depend on the guile list-index semantics, or is the problem elsewhere? If the former, then we probably need to change our code. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930 -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Palm port?

2000-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
27;m sure Bill will be interested in making sure the import code handles this right, and I'd be willing to help with the g-wrapping of pilot-link. However, before you jump in the middle of things, there was a thread just recently where I think Robert was talking about working on this, so y

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