Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released - note about winget

2024-12-20 Thread Mike Brady
Saw another thread about GnuCash version not sorting properly in Windows. Note that winget in Powershell (Win10/11) and Terminal (Win11) does retrieve the correct version a week or three after release. It's been upgrading 5.9 to 5.10 for me in various computers over the past week. At the PS or

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-20 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 12/19/2024 9:24 PM, Danny Siminiuk wrote: It would be really polite if there were an issue or bug that required discussion if that could be started on a new topic rather the "ANNOUNCE" topic. Asking for a friend. :) The connection to the original matter perhaps unclear to the non-technical

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread Danny Siminiuk
..@lists.gnucash.org Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2024 4:12:26 PM Subject: Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released On 12/18/24 8:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > >> On Dec 18, 2024, at 15:56, AP wrote: >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: >>&

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread Sherlock
On 12/18/24 8:11 PM, John Ralls wrote: On Dec 18, 2024, at 15:56, AP wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal directories,

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
Yeah, but the problem isn’t on ‘nix, it’s on Windows and specifically in PowerShell. Regards, John Ralls Although I have never looked at this shell language before, I suspect "complete". Going to the formal language definition, it clearly makes provision for conversion of numbers expressed as

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 19, 2024, at 10:38, Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user > wrote: > > Look --- it is NOT hard (using bash or whatever 'nix shell you prefer) to > convert a string (whose characters represent a number) to a number. LOL, > these days you can even look up how on the web. > > "10"

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
Look --- it is NOT hard (using bash or whatever 'nix shell you prefer) to convert a string (whose characters represent a number) to a number. LOL, these days you can even look up how on the web. "10" is a string representing the number ten. It is not the NUMBER ten. Look up what the bash opera

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread R Losey
There is a *nix command, "sort" in which one can specify to sort numerically, and provide the columns... I was puzzled when I first encountered GnuCash because I thought 5.10 was much earlier version than 5.9 (5.90). One "solution" would be to use leading zeroes... 5.01, 5.02, 5.03 instead of 5.1

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-19 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
Description of solution: You have strings with format  Vm.n.o  where m,n, and o are alphameric expressions of a number. Convert these strings to format Vx.y.z where x, y, and z are numeric expressions  numbers (one byte length will be plenty if binary, two if BCD)) In other words, you need

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-18 Thread Doug via gnucash-user
My fellow PCLinuxOS users would like to thank the team for the latest version of Gnucash (as a user, I have been using Gnucash since a very, very early version). I really appreciate the work & effort the GnuCash team puts in. I just wish my Bank would embrace OFX (export) QIF has been a problem

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-18 Thread AP
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 08:11:29PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: > > I asked the Lord God AI (as I'm not a powershell user) and it came up with > > this: > > > > --- 8<--- > > # Define an array of strings with non-version related text before the > > version numbers > > $versionStrings = @( > >'Pr

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-18 Thread John Ralls
> On Dec 18, 2024, at 15:56, AP wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: >> I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the >> version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal >> directories, sorts them, and grabs the l

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-18 Thread AP
On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 08:01:01PM -0800, John Ralls wrote: > I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the > version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal > directories, sorts them, and grabs the last one. The problem with that is > that it’s a l

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-18 Thread Michael or Penny Novack via gnucash-user
On 12/17/2024 11:01 PM, John Ralls wrote: I’d made an error when I wrote bit in the bundler script that derives the version to pass to the setup-generator: It gets the release instal directories, sorts them, and grabs the last one. The problem with that is that it’s a lexical sort so if say 5.

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-17 Thread John Ralls
lls > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 2:25 PM > To: gnucash-annou...@lists.gnucash.org > Cc: gnucash-devel ; Gnucash Users > > Subject: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released > > The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.10, the eighth release in > the stable 5.x series. &

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-17 Thread Ken Pyzik
From: gnucash-user on behalf of John Ralls Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 2:25 PM To: gnucash-annou...@lists.gnucash.org Cc: gnucash-devel ; Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.10, the eighth release in the

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-16 Thread fromvendor
sh.org] On Behalf Of John Ralls Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2024 4:25 PM To: gnucash-annou...@lists.gnucash.org Cc: gnucash-devel; Gnucash Users Subject: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.10, the eighth release in the stable 5.x series. Betwe

Re: [GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-15 Thread Alan Hopkins
Thanks John and all others involved in the development and maintenance of GnuCash. It is a great application and has made keeping accounts for a small not-for-profit charity a breeze and enabled them to get away from pen & paper. Wishing all those who celebrate it a Merry Christma

[GNC] ANNOUNCE: GnuCash 5.10 Released

2024-12-15 Thread John Ralls
The GnuCash development team announces GnuCash 5.10, the eighth release in the stable 5.x series. Between 5.9 and 5.10, the following bugfixes were accomplished: Bug 798789 - Trading Accounts Bug 799283 - Segfault/Crash if payment dialog change from customer to vendor Bug 799420 - gnuc